Taught by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, an award-winning professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 insightful lectures offer a sweeping 1,000-year history of Eastern Europe with a particular focus on the region’s modern history. You’ll find the answers to these questions and more in A History of Eastern Europe. How has the region been isolated from-and connected with-the West?.What is the region’s relationship to Western Europe?. How and why have national borders shifted so frequently?.Who are the diverse ethnic groups that make up the region, and how have they cooperated and clashed?.Indeed, history haunts this region, so to truly understand Eastern Europe today, it is necessary to examine its past in the broader context of world history, asking such questions as: Nonetheless, Eastern Europe still maintains an aura of “otherness” and mystery, due to its relatively tumultuous timeline and complex cultural tapestry. Yet in recent years, Eastern European nations have begun integrating with Western Europe-joining NATO and the European Union-as the region has gained a new measure of self-determination in the wake of communist collapse. Eastern Europe has long been thought of as the “Other Europe,” a marginalized region rife with political upheaval, shifting national borders, an astonishing variety of ethnic diversity, and relative isolation from the centers of power in the West.
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