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Michael Roskin: Rebirth of East Europe Study Guide
Steven Alan Samson Liberty University, [email protected]
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Chapter One geographical problems of East Europe Slavic origins of most East Europeans ethnic fragmentation specific ethnic groups factors favoring strong states four distinct empires viziers janissaries Treaty of Karlowicz balkanization Palestine Dual Monarchy magyarization annexation of Bosnia Josip Broz partitioning of Polish-Lithuanian state Junkers Crimean War Serbia vs. Macedonia Chapter Two Polish corridor and Danzig Treaty of Riga Curzon Line Sudetenland Treaty of Trianon King Alexander of Serbia Yugoslavia Macedonia Montenegro Romania Bulgaria Second Balkan War dwarfholders Józef Piłsudski Béla Kun Ahmed Zogu Little Entente Munich conference Hitler's strategy Chapter Three Walter Ulbricht Stalin's strategic mistakes Popular Front strategy Tito (Josip Broz) Partisans vs. Ustasha vs. Chetniks Polish underground Katyn Massacre Yalta agreement and its consequences Chapter Four Stalin's strategy in annexing Ruthenia salami tactics three stages of Communist takeovers attributes of Stalinism Stanisław Mikołajcyk Bolesław Bierut defenestration Jan Masaryk Smallholders Party Ferenc Nagy King Michael Ploughmen's Front King Boris Fatherland Front Georgi Dimitrov Enver Hoxha Marshall Plan Berlin Blockade and Airlift Chapter Five role of Communist Party General Secretary Lenin's role in shaping Communism Warsaw Pact Felix Dzerzhinsky Cheka root problem: legitimacy lustration believers vs. opportunists reasons for Tito-Stalin split consequences of Stalin's paranoia about Titoism Władysław Gomułka Pilsen revolt Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech Petöfy Circle Imre Nagy Janos Kádár U.S. role in the Hungarian Revolution Chapter Six samizdat reasons for de-Stalinization reasons for nationalization of industry Comecon and autarky collectivization of agriculture long-term impact of socialism housing in East Europe jealousy factor corruption factor Prague Spring Gdansk Lenin Shipyards Solidarity Lech Wałêsa John Paul II Wojciech Jaruzełski Chapter Seven rise of Balkan dictatorships pollution in East Europe role of liberal Communists in bringing down the regimes the debt factor Ceausescu and Romania's debt pattern of toppling of East European regimes Paul Kennedy's "imperial overstretch" thesis mujahedin Gorbachev's sacrifice of East Europe to join the West ruble overhang and inflation attempts to reform repressive regimes end of Brezhnev Doctrine debate over deleting Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution Popiełuszko factor CIA's and Soviet economists' estimates of Soviet GDP contagion factor Leszek Kolakowski on "fried snowballs" Alexis de Tocqueville Timisoara Chapter Eight earliest parties in newly freed East Europe catchall parties shock therapy East Europe’s election rules proportional representation Lech Wałêsa Non-Party Bloc Romania’s Democratic Coalition Ion Iliescu politics of outbidding center-fleeing tendencies percent thresholds ethnic Hungarians living outside Hungary outbidding in Slovakia cabinet instability fragility of ruling coalitions immobilisme role of prime minister in holding coalition together marketization and privatization coupon privatization lustration in East Germany and elsewhere Chapter Nine mixed areas Bogumils Austrian annexation of Bosnia Unity or Death IMRO Ante Pavelic Chetniks Haiduks Ustasha weaknesses of the Yugoslav state searching for blame Slovenia independence ethnic cleansing Dayton Agreement common denominator of the three Balkan wars Chapter Ten bohemianism subversion of centrally controlled economies by market elements World Bank study of shock therapy