PART I: TO 1914
Prof. Anna M. Cienciala
Dept. of History
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS., 66045
e-mail: hanka@ku.edu.
East Central Europe means Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and this region is emphasized in the selection. Poland receives the most space not only because it is the compiler's primary interest, but also because it enjoys more English language studies than any other country in the whole region. In Part I, Selected works on the Balkans and the Baltic peoples are listed after those on East Central Europe.
Biographical information is provided if available to the compiler at the time. Diacritics are omitted because they were unavailable on the Internet. Publication data is generally restricted to place and date. My thanks go to Gordon Anderson, former Slavic Reference Bibliographer in the Watson Library, University of Kansas now at the University of Minnesota, for his help in finding data, but he is not responsible for any mistakes and omissions to be found here. I also wish to thank my colleague Lynn Nelson, Irsan Jie and Computer Specialist John Rinnert, both of the Instruction and Development Support at K.U. for their help over the past few years.
This bibliography does not conform to standard bibliographical style because it was compiled not by a professional bibliographer but a teacher of Modern East European History for undergraduate and graduate students in History and CREES (Center for Russian and East European Studies) at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., also for all such students at other universities and people interested in the region. Furthermore, one scholar's selections do not necessarily match another's, and new publications are appearing all the time. Thus, this is a work in progress, so comments, corrections, additions, and suggestions are most welcome, especially for countries other than Poland.
Please send e-mails to: hanka@ku.edu., or write: Prof. Anna M. Cienciala, Dept. of History, Wescoe, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd.,University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., 66045. The bibliography will be updated periodically.
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SELECT ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORKS ON THE HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE.
PREFACE. In this annotated bibliography,
Eastern Europe means most of the region, between the Baltic Sea in the
North and the Aegean in the South, also between Germany, Austria and Italy in
the West, and Russia in the East.
East Central Europe means Poland, Czechoslovakia
and Hungary, and this region is emphasized in the selection. Poland receives the most space not only because it is the compiler’s primary
interest, but also because it enjoys more English language studies than any
other country in the whole region. In Part I, Selected works on the
Balkans and the Baltic peoples are listed after those on East Central Europe.
Biographical
information is provided if available to the compiler at the time. Diacritics are omitted because they were unavailable
on the Internet. Publication data is generally restricted to place and date.
My thanks go to Gordon Anderson, Slavic
Reference Bibliographer in the Watson Library, University of Kansas, for his
help in finding data, but he is not responsible for any mistakes and omissions
to be found here.
This bibliography does not conform to standard bibliographical style because
it was compiled not by a professional bibliographer but a teacher of Modern East European History for undergraduate and graduate
students in History and REES (Russian and East European Studies) at the University
of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., also for all such students at other American universities
and other people interested in the region. Furthermore, one scholar’s selections
do not necessarily match another’s, and new publications are appearing all the
time. Thus, this is a work in progress, so comments, corrections, additions,
and suggestions are most welcome, especially for countries other than Poland.
Please send e-mails to: hanka@ku..edu., or write: Prof. Anna M. Cienciala,
Dept. of History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., 66049.The bibliography
will be updated periodically.
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General Histories, Reference Works, Websites,
Archives.
1. General
Histories of the Whole Region.
Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries,
A History of Eastern Europe. Crisis and Change, London and New York,
1998.
(Bideleux was then Director
of the Centre of Russian and East European Studies and of the Master’s Programme
in European Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea; Jeffries, a member
of the Centre, is a lecturer in the Dept. of Economics. The book is based on
scholarly works published in English; Parts I
through IV, are reliable and well written, covering history from prehistoric
times to the end of World War I; Part V, on the Interwar Period, can be faulted
for an almost totally negative evaluation, especially condemning “ethnic nationalism” while underestimating
the impact of general insecurity in the face of German and Soviet policies, and stressing
fascist trends without sufficient consideration for inherited economic, political
and social problems. The authors dispense with World War II in 7 pages [519-26];
part V covers the period from Yalta to 1989 and after).
(Dvornik, 1893-1975, a prominent
Czech specialist in the history of the Byzantine Empire and medieval Eastern Europe, was born in. Chomyz,
Czechoslovakia, came to U.S. 1948, citizen 1954, d. Kromeriz, Czechoslovakia,
1975.. The book is very informative on the Slavic peoples, including
Russia, from the middle ages to 1848
with an epilog up to 1917, but focuses on the period up to 1725; esp. good on culture)
(Good, political survey through World War II. Halecki, 1891-1973, was
a great Polish specialist on medieval and early modern East Ccentra. Europe,
who always emphasized that it was part
of European civilization. The book, designed for American students, is still
useful as an outline political history, but a great deal of new research has
been done since that time, particularly on the 19th and 20th centuries).
2nd edition, New York, 1997.
(Longworth, a professor of
history at McGill University, Montreal, has chosen the route of writing history
backwards from the present to the distant past. He disagrees with the view that
at least East Central Europe and the
northern part of former Yugoslavia are part of Western Civilization, roundly condemns the East European states of
the interwar period for their nationalist excesses while not emphasizing the progress made in other areas and giving
slight attention to general insecurity and the traumatic experiences of World
War II).
(Good survey by a contemporary
British historian, showing the cultural and economic connections between W.
Europe and E. Europe).
(A detailed study of the history
of Poles, Czechs, Hungarians and Kievan Rus in the 10th and 11th centuries. Appendices on White
Croatia and White Serbia and the Donation of Poland to the Holy See, the “Dagome
Iudex.”).
(A good, general history stressing
historical Austrian influence on contemporary nations. The book jacket reproduces a contemporary,
satirical engraving of four monarchs showing their gains on a map of Poland,
1772. However, it is doubtful that - as the jacket explanation states -
one of them is the unfortunate last King of Poland, Stanislas Augustus
Poniatowski, who would have no interest in pointing at eastern Galicia. The
monarch identified as Poniatowski resembles the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa,
who is pointing there while her son and heir Joseph points to western Galicia
- both taken by Austria in 1772. Johnson, born in Minnesota, has lived in Vienna
since 1974 and has published books on Austria and Vienna).
(Best, concise history of the
region so far by the eminent Polish-American historian. Piotr S. Wandycz, b.
1923 in Poland, was educated in Poland, France and England. He is a Professor Emeritus of Yale University, and the leading
historian of interwar Poland’s foreign
relations. In this book, based on many years of study and teaching, the period
up to 1660 is treated as background. The book is v. good in showing similarities
and differences between the peoples of the region in each major period, has
good, short bibliographies).
(Section 33 lists reference
works on the region and by country. Unlike the sections on Western Europe and
USSR, the sections on Eastern Europe have no thematic subdivisions, only rough
chronological divisions into periods before and after World War I. This problem
is, however, partly remedied in the subject index under each country.
(M. Croucher was then a Librarian
Specialist and Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. This is the
most comprehensive work of its kind for Slavic Studies).
Paul L. Horecky, ed., East
Central Europe. Guide to Basic Publications, University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, London, 1969.
(Topical Overview, plus by
country: East Germany, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Poland, Sorbs (Lusatians) and
Polabians. Excellent on historical sources and literature published up to 1965-66.
Horecky, was of Ukrainian origin and
was for many years Chief of the Slavic and Central European Division, Library
of Congress, until he retired in 1977. He died in 1999).
(Covers the Balkans).
B. For annual bibliographies, see:
R.J. Crampton, Bulgaria,
World Bibliographical Series, Santa Barbara and Oxford, England, 1989.
George J. Prpic, Croatia
and the Croatians. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography in English, Scotsdale, AR., 1982. (see also
Yugoslavia below).
Miroslav Rechcigl Jr., Czechoslovakia
Past and Present. vol. I. Political, International, Social and Economic Aspects,
The Hague, Netherlands, 1968.
(Excellent, includes periodicals;
however, much has been published since 1968).
(The book is very sympathetic
to Slovakia and has an extensive bibliography. Its author, who is of Slovak
descent, is a professor of Political Science and Coordinator of the International
Studies Program, York University, Toronto, Canada).
(J. K. Zeman, b.Czechoslovakia,
1926, taught in Canada after World War II and is a specialist in medieval and
early modern European religious movements).
Elmer Bako, Guide to Hungarian
Studies, Stanford, CA., 1976
Thomas Kabdebo, Hungary,
Clio Press, Santa Barbara, CA., 1980.
Barbara Dotts Paul, The
Polish-German Borderlands. An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Press, Wesport,
CT, London, 1994.
(Very useful; ch. 2 covers
period up to 1914. The author was a professional bibliographer in Stevens
Point, WI).
(Excellent. Lerski, 1917-1992,
was a member of the Polish Peasant Party, a courier of the Polish Underground
Army from Poland to London in World War II, a member of the last Polish government-in-exile,
London, and a historian of East Central Europe teaching at the University of
San Francisco. He published books and articles on Polish history).
(Gives some coverage of interwar Poland; valuable
for including books on World War II where Poland is discussed. It includes some
works in Polish, presumably because they meet with the author’s approval. Comments
on the contents of some books are misleading;
does not list articles).
Kurt W. Treptow et al., eds.,
A History of Romania, Iasi, 1997 (has an excellent bibliography divided
into key periods).
John J. Horton, Yugoslavia.
Revised and Expanded Edition, World Bibliographical Series, no. 1., Santa Barbara,
CA., 1990. (includes sources on all
the republics/peoples and their histories) .
Inese A. Smith and Martia V.
Grunts, The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, World Bibliographical
Series, vol. 161, Oxford, England; Santa Barbara, CA., Denver CO., 1993.
(has a good historical introduction
and chronology; sections on history, foreign relations, politics, Soviet occupation
and communism, religion languages, literatures, health, economics, overseas
populations and others).
Richard and Ben Crampton,
Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, London and
New York, 1998.
(This atlas is a companion
to R.J. Crampton’s book on 20th century Eastern Europe [see bibliography on Inter-War
Period]. It has black and white maps and graphs with very good, brief texts on demographics, economics, politics,
social structure, international relations. R.J. Crampton is a British expert
on Bulgaria teaching East European history at Oxford University. His son Ben
cooperated in preparing this atlas).
(Hupchick, a specialist in
Bulgarian history, teaches at Wilkes
University; the atlas has 50 sections with maps and commentary; 41 deal with pre-1914 period, with special attention
to the early medieval period up to the 13th century [sections 5-16]. The
cultural map - no. 4- shows the West European -East European fault [lines] with
areas of convergence, in general agreement with O. Halecki, Norman Davies and
P.S. Wandycz).
(This is an excellent work
covering the history of all of Eastern Europe with clear, detailed maps by Geoffrey
J. Matthews and brief historical commentaries by Magocsi. The author, b.1945,
Englewood, N.J., is of Ukrainian descent and a professor of History and Political
Science at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published a historical
atlas of Ukraine, a history of the Rusyns,
and a history of Ukraine).
(Czaplinski, 1905-81, was a
specialist on the history of 16-17th century Poland at the University of Wroclaw.
Ladogorski is a professor emeritus of geography at the same university. This
is a very good atlas with excellent maps and commentary).
Raymond Hutchings, Historical
Dictionary of Albania, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD., London, 1996..
(R.Hutchings, b. England, 1924,
was in the British Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service, 1952-68, then pursued
an academic career in England, Australia and the U.S; has published several books on the USSR).
(The author has published a
book on the Croatian national movement in 1966-72).
Metuchen, Scarecrow Press,
1997.
(Stallaerts has also published a Historical Dictionary
of Belgium).
(The author, b.Czechoslovakia,
1926, is a journalist and historian who left Czechoslovakia after the Warsaw
Pact invasion of Aug. 1968. He has published a book on the Soviet
policy of collective security in the 1930s and edited Alexander
Dubcek’s memoirs, for both of which see Part II of this bibliography; he taught
at Ohio State University since 1974-89, when he returned to Czechoslovakia).
(B.Vardy, b. Hungary, 1936
and in U.S. since 1950, has authored several books on Hungarian history; this
work has been criticized for selections and omissions - see: Joachim von Puttkamer, The Austrian History
Yearbook, vol. XXX (30), 1999, pp. 282-283).
(Suziedalis, b.1945, obtained
his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas, 1977; he teaches at Millersville University,
Millersville, Pa; for other works, see Pt. I under Baltic Peoples, and Pt. II,
Baltic States, 1939).
(This is the best work of its
kind. For Lerski, see bibliographies, above. P. Wrobel, born and educated in
Poland, has written on 19th- and 20th century Polish
history and holds the chair of Polish History, University of Toronto. Kozicki,
professor emeritus of Politics and Asian Studies, was Lerski’s colleague and
friend at the University of San Francisco, also project director and editor
of the English language text).
(has been criticized for some
omissions and selections).
(Treptow is the editor-in-chief
of A History of Romania, Iasi, 1997).
(On author, see bibliographies,
above).
These articles, written by
experts, appeared under this title and
in this sequence in the American Historical Review, vol. 97, no.
4., October 1992.
Piotr S. Wandycz, “Poland,”
pp. 1011- 1025.
John B. Allcock, Marko Milivojevic
and John J. Horton, eds., Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia. An Encyclopedia,
Denver, CO., 1998.
(Frucht, an expert on Balkan
history, esp. Romania, teaches at Northwest Missouri State. University; the
book includes a long article on Poland by A.M. Cienciala, but some of the shorter
entries are misleading; for a critical review see Prof. B.M. Biskupski in Polish
Review 2003).
(J. Roucek, b. U.S. 1902, in
U.S. after 1921, published in the fields of Political Science, Sociology and
Education; this is an older work but still useful).
(i) General.
The Austrian History Yearbook.
(This annual publication has
been appearing since 1964, first at Rice University, and then at the Center
for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota. It is a high quality journal
with valuable articles on the history of the Habsburg Empire and modern Austria,
also book reviews. The present editor is Professor Charles W. Ingrao, Purdue
University, IN).
(a high quality journal).
(high quality journal).
(High quality journal).
(high quality journal on the
arts).
(This high quality journal,
published since 1974, has appeared since
the early 1990s as annual or bi-annual volumes devoted to specific topics).
( high quality journal which
appears three times a year; articles mostly
on other disciplines. but also history).
(This scholarly quarterly has
been published since 1967 at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Fischer-Galati,
b. Bucharest, Romania, 1924, has published several books on 20th century Romania. He is also
the editor of East European Monographs, a most valuable series of over
200 books on East European history).
(This is a scholarly quarterly
with articles in English and German, edited by Dr. Saulius Suziedalis, published
by the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, 3465 E. Burnside St.,
Portland, OR., 97214-2050;Back issues available from UMI).
(high quality journal, has
occasional historical articles).
(High quality quarterly journal
published since 1972; volumes are devoted to particular topics and countries.
Huttenbach, b. Worms, Germany, 1930, educated in U.S., is a specialist in Russian
and Jewish history, also the Caucasus, and teaches at the City College of New
York).
Problems of Communism , USIA, Washington, D.C.,
1952-1994
(Good articles and book reviews)
(valuable data and analysis).
(originally the American Slavic
Review, 1941-61, then Slavic Review, a high quality quarterly journal published
by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), currently
based at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. There is an index covering the
years 1941-61.
(high quality journal).
Bulgarian Historical Review, Sofia, Bulgaria, from 1973
(some materials in English).
(articles and book reviews
on Lithuanian history).
(Prof. Bogucka is a prominent
historian of medieval - early modern Poland and Europe).
(Wieczerzak is a specialist
on Polish-American History. This quarterly
covers all disciplines, but emphasizes the humanities and social sciences. There
are three indexes: one covering volumes 1-11, published in 1967, the second, a cumulative index, covering vols.
1- 25, 1942-80, published in 1981, and the third, covering vols. 26-40, 1981-95, published in 1997).
(a lively periodical edited
by Prof. Ewa M.Thompson, a specialist in Polish and Russian literatures, Rice
University, Houston, TX. The review has articles on Polish history and other
areas, contemporary statistics, polemics and book reviews; postal address: P.O.Box
79119, Houston, TX., 77279-9119; e-mail address for letters to the editor: sarmatia@rice.edu).
(a popular, illustrated journal).
www.Centraleurope.com - ongoing news plus lots of
commercial advertisements.
Hungary Page: http:www.org/~hipcat/ - has Hungarian News, Culture, and related links,
including History and Resources on Hungary and Transylvania.
(historical sources given from
the Hungarian point of view).
Latvian Academic Networks: http:www.lanet.lv/
(much of the material is in
Latvian).