A history of Eastern Europe

• Preface

• Introduction: Crisis and change in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe

• Part I
• The 'Balkanization' of south-eastern Europe: from ancient times to the First World War, Introduction to

• Part I
• The Process of 'Balkanization'

• 1
• South-Eastern Europe before the Ottomans

• 2
• The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

• 3
• The Seeds of Ottoman Decline

• 4
• The Decay of the Ottoman Empire and the Emergence of Balkan 'National' States

• Part II
• East-Central Europe prior to the Habsburg ascendancy, Introduction to

• Part II
• The Disputed Roots of East-Central Europe

• 5
• The Vicissitudes of Poland

• 6
• The Rise and Decline of the Kingdom of Hungary

• 7
• The Kingdom of Bohemia and the Hussite Heritage

• Part III
• East Central Europe during the Habsburg ascendancy, Introduction to

• Part III
• The Importance of being Austria

• 8
• The Rise of the Habsburg Empire

• 9
• An Empire in Crisis: East-Central Europe and the Revolutions of 1848-49

• 10
• Capitalism and the Seeds of Social Revolution in Austria and Hungary

• 12
• War, Nationalism and Imperial Disintegration

• Part IV
• Eastern Europe between the two World Wars, Introduction to

• Part IV
• The New Political Order in Eastern Europe

• 13
• The Aftermath of the First World War

• 14
• The 1930s Depression and its Consequences

• 15
• The Plight of the Peasantry

• 16
• The Failure of Democracy

• 17
• The Lure of Fascism

• 18
• Fascism and the Communists' New Road to Power in Europe

• Part V
• In the shadow of Yalta: Eastern Europe since the Second World War, Introduction to

• Part V
• The East-West Partition of Europe

• 19
• The Second World War and the Expansion of Communist Power in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe

• 20
• National Roads to Socialism

• 21
• From the Crisis of 1968 to the Revolutions of 1989

• 22
• Eastern Europe since 1989

• 23
• The New East European Economies: What is to be done?

• 24
• Conclusion: A Faltering Return to a Mean-Spirited Europe

• Bibliography

• Index