History Department: East European PhD Reading List

LAST UPDATED IN JANUARY 2011

Eastern Europe: 19th century (c. 1780-1918)

• Daniel Chirot, ed., The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century
• Gary Cohen, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague 1861-1914.
• Istvan Deak, Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918
• Alice Freifeld, Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary
• Eagle Glassheim, Noble Nationalists: The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy William Hagen, Germans, Poles and Jews: The Nationality Conflict in the Prussian East, 1772-1914
• 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
• Barbara Jelavich, History of the Balkans, Vol. 1: 18-19th centuries
• Kenneth Jowitt, ed., Social change in Romania, 1860-1940: a debate on development in a European nation
• Pieter Judson, Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria
• Robert Kann, The Multinational Empire: Nationalism and National Reform in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1918
• Charles King, The Black Sea: A History
• Jeremy King, Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics 1848-1948
• Aleksander Loit, ed., National Movements in the Baltic Countries During the 19th Century
• William O. Oldson, A Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth Century Romania
• 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
• 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, et al., Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland, 1855-1914
• Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans
• Andrzej Walicki, Philosophy and Romantic Nationalism: The Case of Poland
• Larry Wolff, Venice and the Slavs. The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of 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

Eastern Europe: 20th century (c. 1900-present)

• Bradley F. Abrams, The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism
• John Bell, Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliiski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899-1923
• Ivan Berend, Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II
• 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
• Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
• Chad Bryant, Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism
• Maria Bucur, Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania
• Maria Bucur, Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania
• John Connelly, Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956
• Kristian Gerner and Stefan Hedlund, The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire
• Jan T. Gross, Polish Society Under German Occupation
• Lynne Haney, Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary
• Maureen Healy, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I
• Radu Ioanid, The Holocaust in Romania
• Padraic Kenney, Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989
• Padraic Kenney, Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists 1945-1950
• Gail Kligman, The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu’s Romania
• Jan Kubik, The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland
• Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930
• Ezra Mendelsohn, The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars
• Norman Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Europe
• Mary Neuburger, The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria
• Antony Polonsky, Politics in Independent Poland, 1921-1939
• 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 Post-War Eastern Europe
• Aviel Roshwald, Ethnic Nationalism and the Unraveling of Empires: Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, 1914-1923
• Dennison Rusinow, The Yugoslav Experiment, 1948-1974
• Peter Siani-Davies, The Romanian Revolution of December 1989
• H. Gordon Skilling, Charter 77 and Human Rights in Czechoslovakia
• Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999
• Michael Steinlauf, Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust
• Philipp Ther and Ana Siljak, eds., Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948 (selections)
• Bela Vago, The Shadow of the Swastika: The Rise of Fascism and Antisemitism in the Danube Basin, 1936-1939
• Katherine Verdery, National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania

Periodicals

• Austrian History Yearbook
• East European Politics and Societies
• Nationalities Papers
• Slavic Review