This welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europe provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region.   Subjects covered include:    Eastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern times  the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire  the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours  rival concepts of 'Central' and 'Eastern' Europe  the experience and consequences of the two World Wars  varieties of fascism in Eastern Europe  the impact of Communism from the 1940s to the 1980s  post-Communist democratization and marketization  the eastward enlargement of the EU.  A History of Eastern Europe now includes two new chronologies – one for the Balkans and one for East-Central Europe – and a glossary of key terms and concepts, providing comprehensive coverage of a complex past, from antiquity to the present day.

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