From peoples into nations: a history of Eastern Europe

Introduction

PART I.

THE EMERGENCE OF NATIONAL MOVEMENTS. Peoples of East Central Europe

Ethnicity on the edge of extinction

Linguistic nationalism

Nationality struggles: from idea to movement

Insurgent nationalism: Serbia and Poland

PART II. THE DECLINE OF EMPIRE AND THE RISE OF MODERN POLITICS. Cursed were the peacemakers: 1848 in East Central Europe

The reform that made the monarchy unreformable: the 1867 compromise

The 1878 Berlin Congress: Europe's new ethno-nation-states

The origins of National Socialism: fin de siècle Hungary and Bohemia

Liberalism's heirs and enemies: socialism versus nationalism

Peasant utopias: villages of yesterday and societies of tomorrow

PART III. INDEPENDENT EASTERN EUROPE. 1919: a new Europe and its old problems

The failure of national self-determination

Fascism takes root: Iron Guard and Arrow Cross

Eastern Europe's antifascism

PART IV. EASTERN EUROPE AS PART OF THE NAZI AND SOVIET EMPIRES. 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

The 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

PART V. FROM COMMUNISM TO ILLIBERALISM. The unraveling of communism

1989

Eastern Europe explodes: the wars of Yugoslav succession

Eastern Europe joins Europe

Conclusion

Appendix: Tables.