A history of Eastern Europe - 1918 to the present : modernisation, ideology and nationality / Ian D. Armour.

"Why is Eastern Europe still different from Western Europe, more than a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present shows how the roots of this difference are based in Eastern Europe's tortured 20th century. Eastern Europe emerged in 191...

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Vorheriger Titel:Armour, Ian D. A history of Eastern Europe 1740-1918
Hauptverfasser:Armour, Ian D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht:London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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The Making of "Eastern Europe"
Melting-Pot: Eastern Europe in the First World War
A New Europe? The Peace Settlement 1918-23
Problems of the Interwar Period
Test-Tube of Ideologies: Communism
Test-Tube of Ideologies: Conservative Authoritarianism
Test-Tube of Ideologies: Fascism
The East European Origins of the Second World War
Hell's Kitchen: Eastern Europe in the Second World War
War as Revolution: Political Consequences of the Second World War
Great Leap Backwards: The Imposition of Communism 1944-48
National Communism vs. Stalinism
The Perils of De-Stalinisation: Poland and Hungary in 1956
Last-Chance Saloon? The Prague Spring of
Absurdistan, or 'Real Existing Socialism' 1968-1980s
The Solidarity Phenomenon in Poland 1980-89
The Bear Vanishes: Gorbachev and the Roots of Revolution 1985-89
The Power of the Powerless: The Velvet Revolutions of 1989
The Wages of Nationalism: Soviet, Yugoslav and Czech-Slovak Break-Up
Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Post-Communist Modernisation
Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Nationalism and Geopolitics
Conclusion: Retirement of a Concept?