Ian D. Armour

Comprehensive, accessible textbook charting the main developments in Eastern Europe since the First World War

List of Maps
Preface

Introduction
Part One: The Pre-History of Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Chapter 1: The Making of "Eastern Europe"
Chapter 2: Melting-Pot: Eastern Europe in the First World War
Chapter 3: A New Europe? The Peace Settlement 1918-23

Part Two: Pig in the Middle
Chapter 4: Problems of the Interwar Period
Chapter 5: Test-Tube of Ideologies: Communism
Chapter 6: Test-Tube of Ideologies: Conservative Authoritarianism
Chapter 7: Test-Tube of Ideologies: Fascism
Chapter 8: The East European Origins of the Second World War
Chapter 9: Hell's Kitchen: Eastern Europe in the Second World War
Chapter 10: War as Revolution: Political Consequences of the Second World War

Part Three: Saddling Cows
Chapter 11: Great Leap Backwards: The Imposition of Communism 1944-48
Chapter 12: National Communism vs. Stalinism
Chapter 13: The Perils of De-Stalinisation: Poland and Hungary in 1956
Chapter 14: Last-Chance Saloon? The Prague Spring of 1968
Chapter 15: Absurdistan, or 'Real Existing Socialism' 1968-1980s
Chapter 16: The Solidarity Phenomenon in Poland 1980-89

Part Four: All Change?
Chapter 17: The Bear Vanishes: Gorbachev and the Roots of Revolution 1985-89
Chapter 18: The Power of the Powerless: The Velvet Revolutions of 1989
Chapter 19: The Wages of Nationalism: Soviet, Yugoslav and Czech-Slovak Break-Up
Chapter 20: Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Post-Communist Modernisation
Chapter 21: Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Nationalism and Geopolitics

Conclusion: Retirement of a Concept?
Bibliography
Index