History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century

There is probably no greater authority on the modern history of central and eastern Europe than Ivan Berend, whose previous work, Decades of Crisis, was hailed by critics as "masterful" and "the broadest synthesis of the modern social, economic, and cultural history of the region that we possess." Now, having brought together and illuminated this region's storm—tossed history in the twentieth century, Berend turns his attention to the equally turbulent period that preceded it. The "long" ni...