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Author : Francis Dvornik
Release : 1974
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Making of Central and Eastern Europe by : Francis Dvornik
Download or read book The Making of Central and Eastern Europe written by Francis Dvornik. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : František Dvorník (Historiker, Theologe)
Release : 1949
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Book Synopsis The Making of Central and Eastern Europe by : František Dvorník (Historiker, Theologe)
Download or read book The Making of Central and Eastern Europe written by František Dvorník (Historiker, Theologe). This book was released on 1949. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Longworth
Release : 1992-08-18
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Making of Eastern Europe by : Philip Longworth
Download or read book The Making of Eastern Europe written by Philip Longworth. This book was released on 1992-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the collapse of Communism resulted in so much disappointment for the hopeful millions of Eastern Europe? In this original and provocative book Philip Longworth argues that their predicament is only partly due to the imposition of the Soviet system but rather they are the heirs of misfortune which dates back centuries. In exploring the origins of current problems, this sweeping history ranges from the present day to the time of Constantine the Great, from the Urals to the Mediterranean and the Baltic, and emphasises culture and society, as well as politics and economics. The resulting analysis provides the crucial, and until now much-needed, long-term background to the difficulties now facing Eastern Europe. This new perspective and the insight it brings will improve our understanding of this complex region and be of immense value to all who want to understand Eastern Europe's past and present.
Author : Robert Bideleux
Release : 2006-04-10
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A History of Eastern Europe by : Robert Bideleux
Download or read book A History of Eastern Europe written by Robert Bideleux. This book was released on 2006-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change is a wide-ranging single volume history of the "lands between", the lands which have lain between Germany, Italy, and the Tsarist and Soviet empires. Bideleux and Jeffries examine the problems that have bedevilled this troubled region during its imperial past, the interwar period, under fascism, under communism, and since 1989. While mainly focusing on the modern era and on the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism, the book also offers original, striking and revisionist coverage of: * ancient and medieval times * the Hussite Revolution, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation * the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburg Empire * the rise and decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours * rival concepts of "Central" and "Eastern" Europe * the 1920s land reforms and the 1930s Depression. Providing a thematic historical survey and analysis of the formative processes of change which have played the paramount roles in shaping the development of the region, A History of Eastern Europe itself will play a paramount role in the studies of European historians.
Author : Ivan T. Berend
Release : 2003-06-17
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis History Derailed by : Ivan T. Berend
Download or read book History Derailed written by Ivan T. Berend. This book was released on 2003-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is probably no greater authority on the modern history of central and eastern Europe than Ivan Berend, whose previous work, Decades of Crisis, was hailed by critics as "masterful" and "the broadest synthesis of the modern social, economic, and cultural history of the region that we possess." Now, having brought together and illuminated this region's storm-tossed history in the twentieth century, Berend turns his attention to the equally turbulent period that preceded it. The "long" nineteenth century, extending up to World War I, contained the seeds of developments and crises that continue to haunt the region today. The book begins with an overview of the main historical trends in the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, during which time the region lost momentum and became the periphery, no longer in step with the rising West. It concludes with an account of the persisting authoritarian political structures and the failed modernization that paved the way for social and political revolts. The origins of twentieth-century extremism and its tragedies are plainly visible in this penetrating account.
