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EMERGENCE OF NATIONAL MOVEMENTS. Peoples of East Central Europe --
Ethnicity on the edge of extinction --
Linguistic nationalism --
Nationality struggles: from idea to movement --
Insurgent nationalism: Serbia and Poland --
PART II. DECLINE OF EMPIRE AND THE RISE OF MODERN POLITICS. Cursed were the peacemakers: 1848 in East Central Europe --
Reform that made the monarchy unreformable: the 1867 compromise --
The 1878 Berlin Congress: Europe's new ethno-nation-states --
Origins of National Socialism: fin de siècle Hungary and Bohemia --
Liberalism's heirs and enemies: socialism versus nationalism --
Peasant utopias: villages of yesterday and societies of tomorrow --
PART III. INDEPENDENT EASTERN EUROPE. 1919: a new Europe and its old problems --
Failure of national self-determination --
Fascism takes root: Iron Guard and Arrow Cross --
Eastern Europe's antifascism --
PART IV. EASTERN EUROPE AS PART OF THE NAZI AND SOVIET EMPIRES. Hitler's war and its East European enemies --
What Dante did not see: the Holocaust in Eastern Europe --
People's democracy: early postwar Eastern Europe --
Cold War and Stalinism --
Destalinization: Hungary's revolution --
National paths to communism: the 1960s --
1968 and the Soviet bloc: reform communism --
Real existing socialism: life in the Soviet bloc --
PART V. FROM COMMUNISM TO ILLIBERALISM. Unraveling of communism --
Eastern Europe explodes: the wars of Yugoslav succession --
Eastern Europe joins Europe --