An edition of Borderlands of Western Civilization
(1952)
Borderlands of Western Civilization
by Oscar Halecki
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Borderlands of Western Civilization: A History of East Central Europe
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Borderlands of Western Civilization: A History of East Central Europe
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Borderlands of Western Civilization: A History of East Central Europe
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Border lands of Western civilization: a history of East Central Europe.
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Borderlands of Western Civilization
1952, Ronald Press Co.
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Table of Contents
I. THE BACKGROUND
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1. The Geographical and Ethnographical Background … 3
— East Central Europe … 3
— Slavs and Balts … 7
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2. The Slavs and their Neighbors … 12
— The Slavs and Eurasia … 12
— The Earliest Relations Between Slavs and Teutons … 16
— The Slavs and the Byzantine Empire … 21
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3. Toward Political Organization … 25
— The Moravian State and the Apostles of the Slavs … 25
— The Magyar Invasion and the Problem of Rumanian Continuity … 30
— The Normans in Eastern Europe … 32
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II. THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION
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4. The Heritage of the Tenth Century … 41
— The Western Slavs … 41
— The Eastern Slavs … 45
— The Fall of the Bulgarian Empire and the Rise of Hungary … 49
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5. Internal Disintegration and Foreign Penetration … 56
— Bohemia and Poland Until the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century … 56
— The Disintegration of the Kievan State … 60
— The Repercussions of the Fourth Crusade in the Balkans … 65
— German Crusaders and Colonists in North Eastern Europe … 69
— The Mongol Invasion … 74
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6. The Heritage of the Thirteenth Century … 79
— The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Kingdoms of Halich and Lithuania … 79
— Poland's Progress in the Thirteenth Century … 83
— The Last Árpáds and Přemyslids … 87
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7. The New Forces of the Fourteenth Century … 92
— The First Luxemburgs in Bohemia … 92
— Hungary Under the Anjous … 96
— The Rise and Fall of Serbia, and the Ottoman Advance … 101
— The Last Piast Kings of Poland … 105
— Lithuania’s Expansion Under Gediminas and His Sons … 110
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III. RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENTS
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8. The Times of Władysław Jagiełło and Sigismund of Luxemburg … 117
— The Foundation of the Polish-Lithuanian Union and Queen Jadwiga … 117
— Jagiełło and Vytautas … 121
— The Eastern Policy of Sigismund of Luxemburg … 126
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9. The Later Fifteenth Century … 132
— From the Union of Florence to the Crusade of Varna … 132
— Casimir the Jagellonian, George of Podĕbrady, and Mathias Corvinus … 136
— The Eastern Questions in the Fifteenth Century … 142
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10. From the First Congress of Vienna to the Union of Lublin … 147
— Jagellonians and Habsburgs Before and After the First Congress of Vienna (1515) … 147
— The Secularization of Prussia and the Consequences of Mohács … 151
— The Height of Ottoman Pressure in East Central Europe … 155
— The Habsburg Advance in East Central Europe … 160
— Renaissance and Reformation in Poland … 164
— The Union of Lublin … 168
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11. The Later Sixteenth Century … 173
— The Struggle for the Dominium Maris Baltici From Stephen Báthory to Sigismund Vasa … 177
— The Union of Brest … 181
— The Origins of the Ukrainian Cozacks … 186
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IV. THE EASTERN WING OF THE BALANCE OF POWER SYSTEM
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12. The First Half of the Seventeenth Century … 193
— Western Interference in the Russian “Time of Troubles” … 193
— The Eastern Repercussions of the Thirty Years’ War … 197
— The Gathering Storm … 201
— The Great Cozack Insurrection … 206
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13. The Second Half of the Seventeenth Century … 211
— The Great Swedish Invasion … 211
— The Russian and Turkish Advance … 215
— The Battle of Vienna and Its Aftermath … 220
— The Constitutional Crisis of East Central Europe … 225
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14. The End of the Ancien Régime … 230
— The Northern War and the Eastern Question … 230
— Toward Russian-Prussian Cooperation … 235
— During the Polish and Austrian Succession Wars … 242
— The Repercussions of the Seven Years’ War in East Central Europe … 247
— Bohemia and Hungary in the Eighteenth Century … 252
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15. The Partitions of Poland and the Eastern Question … 258
— The First Partition of Poland … 258
— The New Eastern Question … 263
— The Second and Third Partitions of Poland … 268
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V. NATIONALISM VERSUS IMPERIALISM
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16. The Napoleonic Period … 279
— The Rise of National Consciousness in East Central Europe … 279
— Napoleon as a Liberator … 284
— The Failures of the Congress of Vienna … 288
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17. Revolutionary Movements Until 1848 … 293
— The Independence Wars of Serbs and Greeks … 293
— The Origin and Background of the November Insurrection in Poland … 298
— The Nationalities Policy of Nicholas I and Metternich … 303
— From the Crisis of 1846 to the Revolution of 1848 … 308
— Slavs and Magyars in the Hungarian Independence War … 313
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18. From the Crimean War to the Congress of Berlin … 319
— East Central Europe During and After the Crimean War … 319
— The January Insurrection and Its Consequences … 323
— Constitutional Reforms in the Habsburg Monarchy … 328
— The Liberation of Bulgaria and the Crisis of 1878 … 333
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19. Toward World War I … 338
— The Nationalities Problem in Russia and the Revolution of 1905 … 338
— The Nationalities Problem in the Habsburg Monarchy … 342
— The Crisis of 1908 and the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 … 347
— The Origins of World War I in East Central Europe … 352
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VI. TWENTY YEARS OF FREEDOM
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20. The Conseqences of World War I … 359
— Toward National Self-Determination … 359
— The Disintegration of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires … 364
— East Central Europe at the Paris Peace Conference … 368
— The Defense Against Soviet Russia … 373
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21. The Peoples of East Central Europe Between the Wars … 379
— Records of Independence … 379
— The Ukrainians and White Ruthenians in the Soviet Union … 412
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22. International Relations Between the Wars … 417
— East Central Europe in the League of Nations … 417
— Toward Regional Federations … 421
— Relations with Western Europe … 426
— The German and Russian Danger … 430
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VII. DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR II
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23. Hitler’s War … 439
— The First Aggressions … 439
— The Invasion of Poland and Her War Record … 444
— The Fate of the Baltic and Danubian Regions … 448
— Hitler’s Conquest of the Balkans … 453
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24. Stalin’s Peace … 458
— From Nazi Occupation to Soviet “Liberation” … 458
— Yalta … 463
— Behind the Curtain … 467
— East Central Europe and America … 472
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Bibliography … 477
Index … 485
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