1. Peoples of East Central Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The Emergence of National Movements
5. 1. Peoples of East Central Europe 31
6. 2. Ethnicity on the Edge of Extinction 63
7. 3. Linguistic Nationalism 80
8. 4. Nationality Struggles: From Idea to Movement 108
9. 5. Insurgent Nationalism: Serbia and Poland 130
10. Part II. The Decline of Empire and the Rise of Modern Politics
11. 6. Cursed Were the Peacemakers: 1848 in East Central Europe 157
12. 7. The Reform That Made the Monarchy Unreformable: The 1867 Compromise 187
13. 8. The 1878 Berlin Congress: Europe’s New Ethno-Nation- States 210
14. 9. The Origins of National Socialism: Fin de Siècle Hungary and Bohemia 241
15. 10. Liberalism’s Heirs and Enemies: Socialism versus Nationalism 266
16. 11. Peasant Utopias: Villages of Yesterday and Societies of Tomorrow 296
17. Part III. Independent Eastern Europe
18. 12. 1919: A New Europe and Its Old Problems 327
19. 13. The Failure of National Self-Determination 362
20. 14. Fascism Takes Root: Iron Guard and Arrow Cross 390
21. 15. Eastern Europe’s Antifascism 409
22. Part IV. Eastern Europe as Part of the Nazi and Soviet Empires
23. 16. Hitler’s War and Its East European Enemies 435
24. 17. What Dante Did Not See: The Holocaust in Eastern Europe 465
25. 18. People’s Democracy: Early Postwar Eastern Europe 501
26. 19. The Cold War and Stalinism 533
27. 20. Destalinization: Hungary’s Revolution 561
28. 21. National Paths to Communism: The 1960s 590
29. 22. 1968 and the Soviet Bloc: Reform Communism 622
30. 23. Real Existing Socialism: Life in the Soviet Bloc 648
31. Part V. From Communism to Illiberalism
32. 24. The Unraveling of Communism 685
33. 25. 1989 715
34. 26. Eastern Europe Explodes: The Wars of Yugoslav Succession 741
35. 27. Eastern Europe Joins Europe 763
36. Conclusion 787
37. Acknowledgments 801
38. Appendix: Tables 805
39. Abbreviations 811
40. Notes 813
41. Index 939