Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe: History, Data and AnalysisThis unique reference traces the changing borders and ethnic balances that characterized the history of Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. After a preliminary overview, the book divides Eastern Europe into five regions, from the Baltic to the Balkans, and closely analyzes the ethnic structure of each region's constituent units over time. Summary chapters at the end of the volume present a comprehensive ethno-demographic portrait of the region at the start of the century, between the two world wars, and from the post-World War II period to the century's end. The volume is richly illustrated with more than sixty figures, hundreds of tables, and multi-lingual indexes of place names and ethnic groups. |
Contents
1 The Study of Ethnicity in CentralEastern Europe | 3 |
2 The Ethnic Structure of the Baltic States | 19 |
3 The Ethnic Structure of Poland the Czech Republic and Slovakia | 73 |
4 The Ethnic Structure of Belarus and Ukraine | 175 |
5 The Ethnic Structure of Hungary Romania and Moldova | 265 |
6 The Ethnic Structure of the Balkan Countries | 337 |
7 The Ethnic Situation in CentralEastern Europe at the Turn of the Twentieth Century | 435 |
8 The Ethnic Situation in CentralEastern Europe Between the World Wars | 445 |
9 The Contemporary Ethnic Situation in CentralEastern Europe | 455 |
Bibliography | 485 |
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Index of Geographic Names | 509 |
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