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by Ivan T. Berend (Author) "ending progress, in one untrammeled social future" (Einstein 1947, 347). Karl Marx expressed this way of thinking in the preface to Das Kapital when he..." (more)
Key Phrases: enlightened romanticism, incomplete societies, hereditary provinces, Eastern Europe, World War, Courtesy Hungarian National Museum (more...)
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UCLA history professor Berend (Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II) succeeds in capturing the common as well as the diverse features of the parts of a notoriously complex region during the period from the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 to the start of WWI. Berend has made the smart decision to organize his book topically: individual chapters cover economics, politics and culture, but he hews closely to the field in which he first made his mark, economic history. The opening chapter provides an effective synthesis on the origins of backwardness in the region, from the "second serfdom" in the Baltic region to Ottoman domination in the Balkans. But Berend also demonstrates that Balkan societies were themselves resistant to the modernizing impulses coming from the West. Perhaps surprisingly for an economic historian, the author is equally good at covering cultural and political developments, especially the grand appeal of romantic nationalism. By showing how modernized, literary languages were reformed and even invented by nationalist intellectuals, Berend sides with those scholars who believe in the "constructed" nature of ethnic and national identities. Yet he is also keenly aware that nationalism developed upon preexisting religious and regional identities. The later chapters depict the belated, and incomplete, industrialization and the conflicts between democratic and authoritarian politics. Berend's prose is always clear if not exactly inspired. For those readers looking for a sober, effective historical synthesis on a very complicated region, this is a good place to start. 97 b&w photos, 2 maps.
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"Always interesting... a provocative overview of a complex region that is still undergoing change... Highly recommended." - Choice: Current Reviews For Academic Libraries "For Berend, history is a whole, and when cultural, economic, social, and political trends are taken together, they distinguish central and east Europeans from the rest of Europe.... Berend, a first-rate economic historian, treats the often neglected economic dimension with special skill." - Foreign Affairs"

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  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (January 17, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520245253
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520245259
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,075,217 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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At last, a synthesis of Eastern European history of the 19th and early 20th centuries that covers all the major issues, social, eocnomic, political and intellectual, uses the best in both pre-and post-Communist era scholarly studies, and presents in a clear, well-organized, and readable style. He has no axes to grind, and explains clearly how the many ethnic groups and their main oppressors sharpened theirs by adapting western concepts of nationalism and group identity, shifted these powerful ideas from an intellectual elite to the masses, and helped bring about the horrors of two world wars and the current mess in the Balkans. Well done. Essential reading.
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