The Rebirth of East Europe

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This book is designed toquicklyenlighten readers about nature of East Europe. Comprehensive and multiperspective--yet easy and enjoyable to read--it provides an accessible overview ofeverythingthat's politically relevant for the regiongeography, political history, Soviet occupation, Cold War, and system collapse.Caught between Empires. Flunking Democracy: The Interwar Years. East Europe and World War II. The Communist Takeovers. The Hated Regimes. "We Pretend to Work" : The Decay of Communism. 1989: The Gorbachev Factor. The Struggle for Democracy. The Horrors of Yugoslavia. Lessons, Hopes, Fears.For those interested in Eastern European Politics, Cold War History, Comparative Politics, International Relations.

Preface

xiii

Introduction: East Europe as a Unit of Study

(1)

Is There Still a Second World?

(2)

What Did We Know and When Did We Know It?

(1)

The Study of East Europe's Politics

(2)

Caught Between Empires

(19)

East Europe's Ethnic Groups

(2)

Weak States

(2)

East or Central Europe?

(1)

Four Empires

(8)

The Ottoman (Turkish) Empire

(1)

Balkanization

(1)

The Last Ottoman Problem: Palestine

(1)

The Habsburg (Later Austro-Hungarian) Empire

(2)

``Divide and Rule''

(1)

The Tsarist Russian Empire

(1)

Are Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia Part of East Europe?

(1)

The Partitioning of Poland

(1)

The Prussian (German) Empire

(1)

The Eastern Question

(2)

Is East Germany Part of East Europe?

(1)

Key Treaties of Ottoman Decline

(1)

The Good Soldier Schweik

(1)

World War I in East Europe

(3)

Woodrow Wilson on East Europe

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Flunking Democracy: The Interwar Years

(22)

Bordering on Madness

(9)

Poland

(1)

The Curzon Line

(1)

Czechoslovakia

(1)

Hungary

(1)

Yugoslavia

(1)

Romania

(1)

Bulgaria

(1)

Transylvania: Hungarian or Romanian?

(1)

Albania

(1)

Political Instability

(7)

Poland

(1)

Czechoslovakia

(1)

Conservatism and Fascism

(1)

Hungary

(1)

Yugoslavia

(1)

Romania

(1)

Bulgaria

(1)

Albania

(1)

International Alignments

(4)

Suggested Readings

(2)

East Europe and World War II

(16)

Ulbricht: A Stalin Puppet

(1)

The Structure of Communism

(3)

Stalin and Hitler's Rise

(1)

World War II in East Europe

(4)

Tito: Not a Stalin Puppet

(2)

Stalin's Approach to East Europe

(2)

The Katyn Massacre

(1)

``People's Democracy''

(1)

Yalta

(5)

The Balkan ``Percentages'' Deal

(1)

Yalta, 1945

(3)

Suggested Readings

(1)

The Communist Takeovers

(16)

Salami Tactics

(5)

Stalinism

(2)

The Postwar Takeovers

(6)

Poland

(1)

East Germany

(1)

Czechoslovakia

(1)

Hungary

(1)

Masaryk: Murder or Suicide?

(1)

Yugoslavia

(1)

Romania

(1)

Bulgaria

(1)

Albania

(1)

The Start of the Cold War

(3)

The Cold War

(2)

Suggested Readings

(1)

The Hated Regimes

(19)

The Stalinist Model

(8)

The Party in Power

(1)

Security Services

(1)

Communism and Socialism: What's the Difference?

(2)

The Warsaw Pact

(1)

Information Monopoly

(2)

How Much Did Ideology Count?

(1)

Russian Language and Culture

(1)

The Tito-Stalin Split

(4)

Yugoslavia's Maverick Communism

(1)

The Rumblings of Freedom

(6)

Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1953

(1)

East Berlin, 1953

(1)

The Uses of Anti-Semitism

(1)

Poznan, Poland, 1956

(2)

Khrushchev's Anti-Stalin Speech

(1)

Budapest, 1956

(1)

Did the United States Betray the Hungarian Revolution?

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

``We Pretend to Work'': The Decay of Communism

(21)

Economic Problems of Socialism

100

(3)

Comecon

102

(1)

Collectivization of Agriculture

103

(1)

The Long-Term Impact of Socialism

103

(7)

The Trouble with Statistical Comparisons

105

(1)

Falling Behind

106

(1)

The Diseducation of East Europe

107

(2)

The Jealousy Factor

109

(1)

Locked in a Bloc

110

(2)

The Berlin Wall

111

(1)

The Corruption Factor

112

(1)

The Beginnings of System Breakdown

112

(7)

Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1968

112

(2)

The Brezhnev Doctrine

114

(1)

Gdansk, Poland, 1970

115

(1)

The Rise of Solidarity

115

(2)

The Church Factor

117

(2)

Suggested Readings

119

(1)

1989: The Gorbachev Factor

120

(22)

``Liberal Communist'' Interlude

120

(3)

The Poisoning of East Europe

121

(2)

Gorbachev's New Thinking

123

(7)

The Debt Factor

124

(1)

The 1989 Pattern

125

(1)

The Reagan Factor

126

(2)

Imperial Overstretch

128

(2)

The Dominoes Fall

130

(10)

Poland

130

(1)

The Popieluszko Factor

131

(1)

The Contagion Factor

132

(1)

Hungary

132

(1)

``Fried Snowballs'': Is Reform Communism Possible?

133

(1)

East Germany

134

(2)

Czechoslovakia

136

(1)

Bulgaria

137

(1)

Romania

138

(1)

Even Albania

139

(1)

Suggested Readings

140

(2)

The Struggle for Democracy

142

(21)

Slovenia and Croatia

143

(1)

Splinter and Alternation

144

(2)

East Europe's Election Rules

145

(1)

A Model East European Party System

146

(2)

Poland

147

(1)

The Return of the Left

148

(1)

Romania

149

(1)

Emerging Party Systems

149

(3)

The Czech Republic

150

(1)

Slovakia

151

(1)

Founding Elections

152

(2)

Hungary

153

(1)

Nationalist Outbidding

154

(1)

Cabinet Instability

155

(2)

Bulgaria

156

(1)

The Key Issue

157

(2)

Economy, Democracy Corruption

158

(1)

To Punish or to Start Anew?

159

(1)

The Rip Van Winkle Effect

160

(1)

Albania

161

(1)

Suggested Readings

161

(2)

The Horrors of Yugoslavia

163

(18)

The Origins of Serbian Nationalism

163

(2)

The First Failure of Yugoslavia

165

(1)

The Second Failure of Yugoslavia

166

(2)

Yugoslavia's Structural Defects

167

(1)

The Wars of Yugoslav Succession

168

(4)

Searching for Blame

169

(3)

And What of Bosnia?

172

(4)

Hyped Hatred

173

(1)

Three Balkan Wars and How They Ended

174

(2)

Unprofor Lousy Ifor Excellent

176

(1)

The Kosovo Campaign

176

(3)

What Should We Do?

177

(1)

Unsettled Macedonia

178

(1)

Suggested Readings

179

(2)

Lessons, Hopes, Fears

181

(16)

Some Lessons

181

(6)

Socialist Economies Work Poorly

181

(1)

Is Marxism Dead?

182

(1)

What Is the Alternative to Capitalism?

183

(1)

Political Culture Is Not Very Malleable

184

(1)

Empires Are Expensive

185

(1)

There Is No Middle Ground between a Communist System and a Democratic System

185

(1)

Likewise, There Is No Middle Ground between a Centrally Controlled Economy and a Market Economy

185

(1)

A Rapid Transition to a Free Economy Is Best

185

(1)

Anti-Ifonlyism

186

(1)

Some Hopes

187

(4)

East Europe Will Join the European Union

187

(1)

The Russians Don't Panic Over East Europe

187

(1)

More ``Fried Snowballs''? Is Market Socialism Possible?

188

(2)

East Europe Turns Capitalist and Prosperous

190

(1)

Some Fears

191

(4)

Authoritarian Regimes Take Over in East Europe

191

(1)

Extreme Nationalist Regimes Take Over in East Europe

192

(1)

West Europe Fails to Open Its Markets to East Europe

192

(1)

Is Germany a Menace?

193

(1)

A United Europe Locks Out Foreign Goods

193

(1)

Foreigners Fail to Invest in East Europe

194

(1)

Germany Takes Over East Europe

195

(1)

Suggested Readings

195

(2)

Index

197

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The Rebirth of East Europe

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