A list of the suggested readings for the course A History of Eastern Europe from The Great Courses as listed in the course guidebook.

NOTE: The books in this list have been added in order. Please do not vote on this list or add other books.

Full List of Readings:

Lecture 1—The Other Europe: Deep Roots of Diversity
Hupchick and Cox, The Palgrove Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe
Todorova, Imagining the Balkans

LECTURE 2—Formative Migrations: Mongols to Germans
Bideleux and Jeffries, A History of Eastern Europe, pages 1-199
Liulevicius, The German Myth of the East, pages 1-43

LECTURE 3—Clashing Golden Ages, 1389-1772
Christiansen, The Northern Crusades
Malcolm, Kosovo, pages 1-92

LECTURE 4—The Great Crime of Empires: Poland Divided
Dabrowski, Poland, pages 1-337
Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe

LECTURE 5—The Origins of Nationalism, 1815-1863
Baar, Historians and Nationalism
Zamoyski, Holy Madness

LECTURE 6—The Age of Empires, 1863-1914
Weeks, Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia
Zahra, Kidnapped Souls

LECTURE 7—Jewish Life in the Shtetl
Hoffman, Shtetl
Petrovsky-Shtern, The Golden Age Shtetl

LECTURE 8—World War I: Destruction and Rebirth
Hasek, The Good Soldier Svejk
Liulevicius, War Land on the Eastern Front

LECTURE 9—From Democrats to Dictators, 1918-1939
Macmillan, Paris 1919
Snyder, Bloodlands

LECTURE 10—Caught between Hitler and Stalin
Moorhouse, The Devils’ Alliance
Prusin, The Lands Between

LECTURE 11—World War II: The Unfamiliar Eastern Front
Keegan, The Second World War
Snyder, Bloodlands

LECTURE 12—The Holocaust and the Nazi Racial Empire
Dwork and Van Pelt, Holocaust
Gross, Neighbors

LECTURE 13—Postwar Flight and Expulsion
Davies, Rising ’44
Snyder, Bloodlands

LECTURE 14—Behind the Iron Curtain, 1945-1953
Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Milosz, The Captive Mind

LECTURE 15—Forest Brothers: Baltic Partisan Warfare
Daumantas, Forest Brothers
Kasekamp, A History of the Baltic States, pages 124-146

LECTURE 16—Life in Totalitarian Captivity, 1953-1980
Djilas, The New Class
Lewis, Hammer and Tickle

LECTURE 17—Power of the Powerless: Revolts and Unrest
Kundera, The Joke
Michener, The Bridge at Andau

LECTURE 18—Solidarity in Poland: Walesa’s Union
Havel, “Power of the Powerless”
Penn, Solidarity’s Secret

LECTURE 19—Toppling Idols: The Communist Collapse
Ash, The Magic Lantern
Smidchens, The Power of Song

LECTURE 20—The Turn: The Post-Soviet 1990s
Ash, The File
Snyder, The Reconstruction of Notions

LECTURE 21—Yugoslav Wars: Milosevic and Balkan Strife
Filipovic, ZIata’s Diary
Glenny, The Balkans

LECTURE 22—The New Europe: Joining NATO and the EU
Crowe, A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia
Drakulic, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

LECTURE 23—The Unfolding Ukraine-Russia Crisis
Magocsi, Ukraine
Wilson, Ukraine Crisis

LECTURE 24—Eastern Europe at the Crossroads
Lucas, Deception
Martinaitis, The Ballads of Kukutis