TY - BOOK AU - Bianchini,S. TI - Eastern Europe and the challenges of modernity, 1800-2000 T2 - BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies SN - 9781138832237 AV - DJK48 .B5313 2014 U1 - 947.0009/04 23 KW - Economic development KW - Europe, Eastern KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - 19th century KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Development and backwardness: the social origins of East European politics -- Capitalism or rural socialism?: the dilemmas of renewal in Russia and the Balkans -- The "peasant state": ideology and politics of agrarian movements in Central-Eastern Europe between the two world wars -- Communism and the "third peasant way": competing internationals and development models in the USSR and central-eastern europe -- Market socialism, national roads to socialism and competition with the West -- Between otherness and globalisation: "real socialism", modernity and Gorbachev -- Conclusion: the challenges of modernity and post-modernity ER -