A History of Eastern Europe - Crisis and Change - Robert Bideleux - Paperback Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 2007 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Description

This welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europe provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region. Subjects covered include: - Eastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern times - the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire - the impact of the region''s powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours - rival concepts of ''Central'' and ''Eastern'' Europe - the experience and consequences of the two World Wars - varieties of fascism in Eastern Europe - the impact of Communism from the 1940s to the 1980s - post-Communist democratization and marketization - the eastward enlargement of the EU. A History of Eastern Europe now includes two new chronologies – one for the Balkans and one for East-Central Europe – and a glossary of key terms and concepts, providing comprehensive coverage of a complex past, from antiquity to the present day.