History of Eastern Europe

<p>This welcome second edition of <em>A History of Eastern Europe</em> 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. </p><p>Subjects covered include:</p><ul> <li>Eastern Europe in ancient medieval and early modern times</li> <li>the legacies of Byzantium the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire</li> <li>the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours</li> <li>rival concepts of 'Central' and 'Eastern' Europe</li> <li>the experience and consequences of the two World Wars</li> <li>varieties of fascism in Eastern Europe</li> <li>the impact of Communism from the 1940s to the 1980s</li> <li>post-Communist democratization and marketization</li> <li>the eastward enlargement of the EU.</li> </ul><p><em>A History of Eastern Europe</em> 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.</p>