Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century

by Crampton, R. J.

• ISBN13: 9780415053464
• ISBN10: 0415053463
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Covering all key Eastern European states and their history right up to the collapse of communism, this new edition of is a comprehensive political history of Eastern Europe taking in the whole of the century and the geographical area

Table of Contents

List of maps
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Before the Twentieth Century	p. 1
The Inter-War Years: An Introductory Survey	p. 31
Poland, 1918-39	p. 39
Czechoslovakia, 1918-38	p. 57
Hungary, 1918-41	p. 78
The Baltic States, 1918-40	p. 95
Romania, 1918-41	p. 107
Bulgaria, 1918-41	p. 119
Yugoslavia, 1918-41	p. 130
Albania, 1918-39	p. 144
Ideological Currents in the Inter-War Period	p. 152
The Second World War in Eastern Europe	p. 179
The Communist Takeovers	p. 211
The Communist System	p. 240
East European Stalinism, 1948-53	p. 255
The Retreat from Stalinism, 1953-6	p. 275
Eastern Europe, 1956-68	p. 307
Czechoslovakia, 1968-9	p. 326
Eastern Europe, 1969-80	p. 345
The Solidarity Crisis, Poland 1980-1	p. 367
Eastern Europe, 1980-9	p. 379
The Revolutions of 1989-91	p. 391
Notes	p. 416
Bibliography	p. 426
Index	p. 451
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