History of Eastern Europe - Paperback / softback

This welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europeprovides 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 includeEastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern timesthe legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empirethe impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighboursrival concepts of 'Central' and 'Eastern' Europethe experience and consequences of the two World Warsvarieties of fascism in Eastern Europethe impact of Communism from the 1940s to the 1980spost-Communist democratization and marketizationthe eastward enlargement of the EU.A History of Eastern Europenow 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.