A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change Tapa dura - 1998 - 1st Edición

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The recent history of Eastern Europe is one of ethnic and national conflict following the collapse of Communism. This volume examines these increasingly complex problems within the context of the imperial past and of the interwar years. The authors provides a thematic historical survey and analysis of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played the paramount roles in shaping the development of this region to the present. They also take a look at the actual boundaries and definitions of Eastern Europe and provide their own categorization. The lands which lie between Germany, Italy and the former Tsarist and Soviet empires have had the misfortune, in modern times of being sandwiched between overwhelmingly powerful empires: Germanic on the one side and Ottoman, Tsarist of Soviet on the other. Though giving particular weight to the last century, this book also covers ancient and medieval times, including discussion of the medieval kingdoms, the partitions of Poland and the influence of Russia and Prussia.