
* the rise and decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburg Empire * the Hussite Revolution, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation While mainly focusing on the modern era and on the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism, the book also offers original, striking and revisionist coverage of:

A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change is a wide-ranging single volume history of the "lands between", the lands which have lain between Germany, Italy, and the Tsarist and Soviet empires.īideleux and Jeffries examine the problems that have bedevilled this troubled region during its imperial past, the interwar period, under fascism, under communism, and since 1989.
