From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe

Description

Peoples of Eastern Europe — Ethnicity on the edge of extinction — Linguistic nationalism — Nationality struggles : from idea to movement — Insurgent nationalism : Serbia and Poland — Cursed are the peacemakers : 1848 in East Central Europe — The reform that made the monarchy unreformable : the 1867 compromise — 1878 Berlin Congress : Europe’s new ethno-nation states — The origins of National Socialism : fin de siecle Hungary and Bohemia — Liberalism’s heirs and enemies : socialism vs. nationalism — Peasant utopias : villages of yesterday and societies of tomorrow — 1919 : a new Europe and its old problems — The failure of national self-determination — Fascism takes root : Iron Guard and Arrow Cross — East Europe’s anti-fascism — Hitler’s war and its East European enemies — What Dante did not see : the Holocaust in Eastern Europe — People’s democracy : early postwar Eastern Europe — Cold War and Stalinism — Destalinization : Hungary’s revolution — National paths to communism : the 1960s — 1968 and the Soviet bloc : reform communism — Real existing socialism : life in the Soviet bloc — The unraveling of communism — 1989 — East Europe explodes : the wars of Yugoslav succession — East Europe joins Europe.

• Author: John Connelly
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Published: 2020
• Pages: 966
• ISBN-13: 9780691167121