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Eastern Europe: 19th century (c. 1780-1918)
Orals reading list
Historiography
- Hugh Agnew, Origins of the Czech National Renascence
- Gerasimos Augustinos, ed., Diverse Paths to Modernity in Southeastern
Europe : Essays in National Development Eleni Bastéa, The creation
of modern Athens : planning the myth
- Lucian Boia, History and myth in Romanian consciousness John Boyer,
Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna : Christian Socialism in Power,
1897-1918
- F.W. Bridge, The Habsburg Monarchy Among the Great Powers
- Peter Brock, The Slovak National Awakening
- Maria Bucur and Nancy Wingfield, Staging the Past. The Politics of
Commemorations in the Habsburg Lands, 1848-Present
- Daniel Chirot, The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics
and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century
- Daniel Chirot, Social change in a peripheral society: the creation
of a Balkan colony
- Gary Cohen, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague 1861-1914.
- Patrice M. Dabrowski, Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland
- Roumen Daskalov, The making of a nation in the Balkans: historiography
of the Bulgarian revival
- Istvan Deak, The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians,
1848-1849
- Istvan Deak, Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of
the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918
- K.E. Fleming, The Muslim Bonaparte: diplomacy and orientalism in Ali
Pasha's Greece
- Alice Freifeld, Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary
- Bruce Garver, The Young Czech Party 1874-1901 and and the Emergence
of a Multiparty System
- Eagle Glassheim, Noble nationalists : the transformation of the Bohemian
aristocracy
- Anders Henriksson, The Tsar's Loyal Germans - The Riga German Community: Social Change and the Nationality Question, 1855-1905
- John-Paul Himka, Socialism in Galicia: Emergence of Polish Social
Democracy and Ukrainian Radicalism (1860-1890)
- Keith Hitchins, Orthodoxy and nationality: Andreiu Saguna and the
Rumanians of Transylvania, 1846-1873
- Miroslav Hroch, Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe:
A Comparative Analysis of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups
among the Smaller European Nations.
- Andrew Janos, The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary, 1825-1945
- Oskar Jaszi, The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy
- Jerzy Jedlicki, A Suburb of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches
to Western Civilization
- Kenneth Jowitt, ed., Social change in Romania, 1860-1940: a debate
on development in a European nation
- Pieter M. Judson, Exclusive revolutionaries: liberal politics, social
experience, and national identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1914
- Pieter M. Judson and Marsha L. Rozenblit, eds., Constructing nationalities
in East Central Europe
- Robert Kann, The multinational empire: nationalism and national reform
in the Habsburg monarchy, 1848-1918
- Hillel Kieval, Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the
Czech Lands
- Charles King, The Black Sea: A History
- Jeremy King, Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of
Bohemian Politics 1848-1948
- Eve Levin, Sex and society in the world of the orthodox Slavs, 900-1700
- Aleksander Loit, ed., National Movements in the Baltic Countries During the 19th Century
- William McCagg, A History of the Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918
- Nicholas Miller, Between nation and state: Serbian politics in Croatia
before the First World War
- Sorin Mitu, National identity of Romanians in Transylvania
- Robert Nemes, The once and future Budapest
- William O. Oldson, A providential anti-Semitism: nationalism and polity
in nineteenth century Romania
- Stanley Pech, The Czech Revolution of 1848
- Duncan Perry, Stefan Stambolov and the emergence of Modern Bulgaria,
1870-1895
- Brian Porter, When nationalism began to hate: Imagining modern politics
in nineteenth century Poland
- Hugh Poulton and Suha Taji-Farouki, eds., Muslim identity and the
Balkan state
- Marsha L. Rozenblit, The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and
Identity
- Alfred Erich Senn, The Emergence of Modern Lithuania
- Jonathan Sperber, The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
- Keely Stauter-Halstead, The Nation and the Village in 19th century
Galicia
- Gale Stokes, Politics as development : the emergence of political
parties in nineteenth century Serbia
- Peter Sugar, Nationalism and Religion in the Balkans since the 19th
century
- Edward C. Thaden, Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710-1870
- Edward C. Thaden, et al., Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland, 1855-1914
- Maria Todorova, ed., Balkan identities: nation and memory
- Maria Todorova, Balkan family structure and the European pattern:
demographic developments in Ottoman Bulgaria
- Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans
- Andrzej Walicki, Philosophy and romantic nationalism: The case of
Poland
- Theodore R. Weeks, From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The "Jewish
Question" in Russian Poland, 1850-1914
- Heide Whelan, Adapting to Modernity: Family, Caste and Capitalism Among the Baltic Germany Nobility
- Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on
the Mind of the Enlightenment
Articles
- Toivo Raun, "The Latvian and Estonian National Movements, 1860-1914," Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 64, no. 1 (1986): 66-80
- Toivo Raun, "Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Estonian Nationalism Revisited," Nations and Nationalism, vol. 9, no. 1 (2003): 129-147
- Theodore R. Weeks, "Russification and the Lithuanians, 1863-1905," Slavic Review, vol. 60, no. 1 (2001): 96-114
Reference
- Steven Beller, Francis Joseph
- Richard Clogg, A concise history of Greece
- David Good, The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750-1914
- Keith Hitchins, Romania, 1866-1947
- Barbara Jelavich, History of the Balkans (18th and 19th c.)
- Barbara Jelavich, Russia's Balkan entanglements, 1806-1914
- Robert Kann, A History of the Habsburg Empire
- David Kirby, The Baltic World, 1772-1993: Europe's Northern Periphery in an Age of Change
- John Lampe, Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950
- Mark Mazower, The Balkans: a short history
- A.J.P. Taylor, The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918: A History of the
Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary
- Piotr Wandycz, The Lands of Partitioned Poland
Eastern Europe: 20th century (c. 1900-present)
Orals reading list
Historiography
- Bradley F. Abrams, The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech
Culture and the Rise of Communism
- Ivo Banac, With Stalin against Tito
- John Bell, Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliiski and the Bulgarian
Agrarian
- National Union, 1899-1923
- Robert Blobaum, Rewolucja
- Melissa Bokovoy, Peasants and Communists: Politics and Ideology in
the Yugoslav Countryside, 1941-1953
- Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary
- Randolph L. Braham, ed., The Destruction of Romanian and Hungarian
Jews during the Antonescu Era
- Keith Brown, The past in question : modern Macedonia and the uncertainties
of nation
- Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men
- Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National
Question in the New Europe
- Maria Bucur, Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania
- Maria Bucur and Nancy Wingfield, eds., Gender and War in 20th c. Eastern
Europe
- John Connelly, Captive University: The Sovietization of East German,
Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956
- David Crowley and Susan E. Reid, Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday
Life in the Eastern Bloc
- Istvan Deak and Jan Gross, eds., The Politics of retribution in Europe
: World War II and its Aftermath
- Dejan Djokic, ed., Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992
- Daina Stukuls Eglitis, Imagining the Nation: History, Modernity and Revolution in Latvia
- David Engel, Facing the Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile
and the Jews, 1943-1945
- Andrew Ezergailis, The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1944: The Missing Center
- Barbara Falk, The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe: Citizen-Intellectuals
and Philosopher-Kings
- James Felak, "At the Price of the Republic": Hlinka's Slovak
People's Party, 1929-1938
- Benjamin Frommer, National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators
in Postwar Czechoslovakia
- Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish Revolution
- Kristian Gerner and Stefan Hedlund, The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire
- Mary Gluck, Georg Lukács and His Generation
- Jan T. Gross, Neighbors
- Jan T. Gross, Polish Society under German Occupation: The Generalgouvernement,
1939-1944
- Jan T. Gross, Revolution from Abroad
- Peter Hanak, The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History
of Vienna and Budapest
- Lynne Haney, Inventing the Needy
- Maureen Healy, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War
and Everyday Life in World War I
- George Hodos, Show Trials
- Jonathan Huener Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration,
1945–1979
- Radu Ioanid, The Holocaust in Romania
- Ghita Ionescu, Communism in Rumania, 1944-1962
- Barbara Jancar-Webster, Women and Revolution in Yugoslavia
- Katherine Jolluck, Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet
Union During WWII
- Yehayahu Jelinek, The Parish Republic: Hlinka’s Slovak Party
1939-1945
- Andres Kasekamp, The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia
- Padraic Kenney, Carnival of Revolution
- Padraic Kenney, Rebuilding Poland: : Workers and Communists 1945-1950
- Gail Kligman, The Politics of Duplicity
- John Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country
- John Lampe and Mark Mazower, eds., Ideologies and National Identities:
The Case of 20th c. Southeastern Europe
- Carol Skalnik Leff, National Conflict in Czechoslovakia
- Robert Levy, Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist
- Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania
- John Lukacs, Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and its
Culture
- Vojtech Mastny, The Czechs under Nazi Rule: The Failure of National
Resistance,
1939-1942
- Ezra Mendelsohn, The Jews of East Central Europe between the World
Wars
- Dan Miller, Forging Political Compromise
- Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind
- Romuald J. Misiunas and Rein Taagepera, The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940-1990
- Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, The Green Shirts and the Others
- Norman Naimark and Leonid Gibianskii, eds. The Establishment of Communist
Regimes in Eastern Europe
- Norman Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century
Europe
- Norman Naimark, The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone
of Occupation, 1945-1949
- Mary Neuburger, The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation
of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria
- David Ost, Solidarity: The Politics of Anti-Politics, Opposition and
Reform in Poland since 1968
- Marta Petreu, An Infamous Past: E.M. Cioran and the Rise of Fascism
in Romania
- Antony Polonsky, Politics in Independent Poland, 1921-1939
- Sabrina P. Ramet, Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change
in East-Central Europe and Russia
- Georg von Rauch, The Baltic States: Years of Independence- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1917-1940
- Susan E. Reid and David Crowley, eds., Style and Socialism: Modernity
and Material Culture in Postwar Eastern Europe
- Henry Roberts, Rumania: Political Problems of an Agrarian State
- Aviel Roshwald, Ethnic Nationalism and the Unraveling of Empires:
Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, 1914-1923
- Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites, eds., European Culture in the Great
War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918
- Dennison Rusinow, The Yugoslav Experiment
- Sher, Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia
- Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death
in Marxism, 1918-1968
- H. Gordon Skilling, Charter 77 and Human Rights in Czechoslovakia
- H. Gordon Skilling, Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution
- Carl E. Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
- Laura Silber, Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
- Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century
- Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania,
Belarus 1569-1999
- Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission
to Liberate Soviet Ukraine
- P. Sugar and Ivo Lederer, eds., Nationalism in Eastern Europe
- Vladimir Tismaneanu, Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism,
and Myth in Post-Communist Europe.
- Tismaneanu, Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel
- Vladimir Tismaneanu, The Revolutions of 1989
- Rudolf Tokes, Hungary's Negotiated Revolution
- Bela Vago, The Shadow of the Swastika: The Rise of Fascism and Antisemitism
in the Danube Basin, 1936-1939
- V. Stanley Vardys and Romuald J. Misiunas, eds., The Baltic States in Peace and War, 1917-1945
- Katherine Verdery, National Ideology under Socialism
- Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and
Post-Socialist Change
- Katherine Verdery, Transylvanian Villagers
- Katherine Verdery, What was Socialism and What Comes Next?
- Leon Volovici, Nationalist Ideology and Antisemitism: The Case of
Romanian Intellectuals in the 1930s
- Wayne Vucinich, Serbia Between East and West
Articles
- Bradley F., Abrams, " The Price of Retribution: The Trial of
Jozef Tiso," in: East European Politics and Societies 10 (1996)
pp. 255-292
- Bradley F. Abrams, “The Second World War and the East European
Revolution,” East European Politics and Societies vol. 16, no
3 (fall 2002): 623-664.
- Chad Bryant, "Either German or Czech: Fixing Nationality in Bohemia
and Moravia, 1939-1946," Slavic Review vo. 61, no. 4 (2002): 683-706.
- Maria Bucur, "Between the Mother of the Wounded and the Virgin
from Jiu, Romanian Women and the Gender of Heroism during the Great
War," Journal of Women's History vol. 12, no. 2 (summer 2000):
30-56.
- Matei Calinescu, "The 1927 Generation in Romania," East
European Politics and Societies vol. 15, no. 3 (fall 2001): 649-477.
- Malgorzata Fidelis, " Equality through Protection: The Politics
of Women’s Employment in Postwar Poland, 1945–1956,"
Slavic Review vo. 63, no. 2 (summer 2004)
- Mary Gluck, "The Budapest Flâneur: Urban Modernity, Popular Culture,
and the 'Jewish Question' in Fin-de-Siècle Hungary," Jewish
Social Studies vol. 10, no. 3 (spring/summer 2004).
- Jan T. Gross, “Polish-Jewish Relations during the War: An Interpretation,”
European Journal of Sociology
- William Hagen, "Before the 'Final Solution': Toward a Comparative
Analysis of Political
Anti-Semitism in Interwar Germany and Poland," Journal of Modern
History (June 1996)
- Owen V. Johnson, "Unbridled Freedom: Czech Press and Politics,
1918-1938." Journalism History 13, no. 3-4 (Autumn-Winter 1986):
96-103
- Padraic Kenney, "The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland,"
American Historical Review vol. 104 (1999): 399-425.
- Mark Mazower, "Violence and the State in the 20th c.," American
Historical Review (October 2002)
- Ezra Mendelsohn, “Interwar Poland: Good for the Jews of Bad
for the Jews?” in Ch. Abramsky, ed., The Jews in Poland (Oxford,
1986), 130-39.
- Andrea Orzoff, “The Literary Organ of Politics”: Tomáš
Masaryk and Political Journalism, 1925–1929," Slavic Review
vo. 63, no. 2 (summer 2004)
- Marci Shore, “Children of the Revolution: Communism, Zionism,
and the Berman Brothers” Jewish Social Studies vol. 10, no. 3
(spring/summer 2004): 23-86.
- Marci Shore, “Conversing with Ghosts: Jedwabne, Zydokomuna,
and Totalitarianism” (review article), Kritika: Explorations of
Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 6, no. 2 (spring 2005): 345-374
- Marci Shore, “Czysto Babski: A Women’s Friendship in a
Man’s Revolution,” East European Politics and Societies
vol. 16, no. 3 (fall 2002): 810-863.
- Marci Shore, “Engineering in the Age of Innocence: A Genealogy
of Discourse Inside the Czechoslovak Writers' Union, 1949-1967,”
East European Politics and Societies, vol. 12, no. 3 (fall 1998): 397-441.
- Gordon Skilling, "Stalinism and Czechoslovak Political Culture"
in Stalinism: Essays in
Historical Interpretation, ed. Robert Tucker and Wlodzimierz Brus (New
York: Norton, 1977)
- Gale Stokes, “Eastern Europe’s Defining Fault Lines,”
in Three Eras of Political Change in Eastern Europe
Reference
- Ivan Berend, Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before
World War II
- Laszlo Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: Between the United
States and the Soviet Union
- R.J. Crampton, A Concise History of Bulgaria
- R.J. Crampton, Eastern Europe in the 20th c. and After
- Norman Davies, God's Playground, vol. II
- Raul Hillberg, The Destruction of the European Jews
- Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945
- Noel Malcom, Kosovo: A Short History
- Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
- Andrejs Plakans, The Latvians: A Short History
- Toivo Raun, Estonia and the Estonians
- Joseph Rothschild
and Nancy Wingfield, Return to Diversity
- Thomas W. Simons, Eastern Europe in the Postwar World
- Michael Steinlauf, Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the
Holocaust.
- Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism
in Eastern Europe
- V. Stanley Vardys and Judith B. Sedaitis, Lithuania: The Rebel Nation
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