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.