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100	1		_aBideleux, Robert.
245	1	2	_aA history of Eastern Europe: crisis and change/ _cRobert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew York: _bRoutledge, _c2007.
300			_axliv, 669 p. : _bmaps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [623]-652) and index.
505	0		_aList of maps List of tables Preface to the second edition Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts Chronology of the Balkan Peninsula Chronology of East Central Europe List of abbreviations Introduction: Crisis and Change in the Balkan Peninsula and East Central Europe Part I: The Balkan Peninsula from Graeco-Roman times to the First World War 1. The gradual ¿Balkanization¿ of the Balkan Peninsula 2. The Balkan Peninsula in Graeco-Roman Times 3. The Byzantine ascendancy and its impact, 395-1204 AD 4. The Crusades, the emergence of South Slav polities, and the decline of Byzantium, 1095-1453 5. The rise of the Ottoman (Osmanli) state, 1326-1453 6. The Balkans during the heyday of Ottoman power, 1453-1686 7. The Balkans and the waning of Ottoman power, 1687-1921 8. The emergence of Balkan national states,1817-1913 9. The cataclysmic impact of war on the Balkans, 1912-1918 Part II: East Central Europe from Roman Times to the First World War 10. The disputed ¿roots¿ of East Central Europe before the tenth century AD 11. The apparent convergence between East Central Europe and Western Christendom, from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries AD 12. The ¿parting of the ways¿: the underlying divergence of East Central Europe from western Europe between the late fifteenth and the late eighteenth centuries 13. The emergence of the Austrian Habsburg hegemony over East Central Europe 14. Poland-Lithuania, 1466-1795 15. Revolution and ¿reaction¿: the Habsburg Empire, 1789 -1848 16. The ¿Revolutions of 1848¿: the Habsburg Empire in crisis 17. The Empire strikes back: counter-revolution, neo-absolutism and reform in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1849-1918 18. Capitalism and nationalism: the seeds of social revolution and imperial disintegration in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1918 19. Life after death: partitioned Poland, 1795-1914 20. The Austro-Hungarian ¿road to war¿, 1908-14 21. The impact of the First World War on East Central Europe Part III: East Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula from 1918 to 1945: from national self-determination to fascism and the Holocaust 22. The post-1918 political order in the Balkans and East Central Europe 23. From revolution and counter-revolution to fragile stabilization and recovery, 1918-29 24. The 1930s economic depression and its consequences 25. The plight of the peasantry: towards a re-evaluation of peasant poverty and aspirations 26. The failure of democracy 27. The lure of fascism in the Balkans and East Central Europe: towards a reinterpretation 28. The Comintern ¿theory of fascism¿ and its long-neglected role in rationalizing the Communist seizures of power in 1945-48 29. The impact of the Second World War and mass genocide on the Balkans and East Central Europe Part IV: In the shadow of Yalta: The Communist-dominated Balkans and East Central Europe, 1945-89 30. The East-West Partition of Europe, 1945-89 31. The emergence of Communist regimes in the Balkans and East Central Europe, 1945-60 32. ¿National Communism¿ 33. From the crisis of 1968 to the revolutions of 1989 Part V Post-Communist transformations 34. Post-Communist political transformations: debunking ¿democratic transition¿ and ¿democratic consolidation¿ 35. Post-Communist economic transformations: from dirigiste capitalism to more liberal market capitalism 36. The ¿return to Europe¿: the gradual integration of the post-Communist East Central European and Balkan states into the EU and NATO 37. Epilogue: the fate of modernist projects in East Central Europe and the Balkans Bibliography Index
650			_aEurope, Eastern -- History.
700			_aJeffries, Lan.
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