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Introduction 1
Part I The Emergence of National Movements
1. Peoples of East Central Europe 31
2. Ethnicity on the Edge of Extinction 63
3. Linguistic Nationalism 80
4. Nationality Struggles: From Idea to Movement 108
5. Insurgent Nationalism: Serbia and Poland 130
Part II The Decline of Empire and the Rise of Modern Politics
6. Cursed Were the Peacemakers : 1848 in East Central Europe 157
7. The Reform That Made the Monarchy Unreformable: The 1867 Compromise 187
8. The 1878 Berlin Congress: Europe's New Ethno-Nation-States 210
9. The Origins of National Socialism: Fin de Siècle Hungary and Bohemia 241
10. Liberalism's Heirs and Enemies: Socialism versus Nationalism 266
11. Peasant Utopias: Villages of Yesterday and Societies of Tomorrow 296
Part III Independent Eastern Europe
12. 1919: A New Europe and Its Old Problems 327
13. The Failure of National Self-Determination 362
14. Fascism Takes Root: I...ron Guard and Arrow Cross 390
15. Eastern Europe's Antifascism 409
Part IV Eastern Europe as Part of the Nazi and Soviet Empires
16. Hitler's War and Its East European Enemies 435
17. What Dante Did Not See: The Holocaust in Eastern Europe 465
18. People's Democracy: Early Postwar Eastern Europe 501
19. The Cold War and Stalinism 533
20. Destalinization: Hungary's Revolution 561
21. National Paths to Communism: The 1960s 590
22. 1968 and the Soviet Bloc: Reform Communism 622
23. Real Existing Socialism: Life in the Soviet Bloc 648
Part V From Communism to Illiberalism
24. The Unraveling of Communism 685
25. 1989 715
26. Eastern Europe Explodes: The Wars of Yugoslav Succession 741
27. Eastern Europe Joins Europe 763
Conclusion 787
Acknowledgments 801
Appendix: Tables 805
Abbreviations 811
Notes 813
Index 939