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Liberty UniversityDigitalCommons@LibertyUniversityFaculty Publications and Presentations Helms School of Government2003Michael Roskin: Rebirth of East Europe StudyGuideSteven Alan SamsonLiberty University, ssamson@liberty.eduFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/gov_fac_pubsPart of the Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons, Political Science Commons, and thePublic Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Helms School of Government at DigitalCommons@Liberty University. It has beenaccepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Liberty University. For moreinformation, please contact scholarlycommunication@liberty.edu.Recommended CitationSamson, Steven Alan, "Michael Roskin: Rebirth of East Europe Study Guide" (2003). Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 240.http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/gov_fac_pubs/240MICHAEL ROSKIN:  REBIRTH OF EAST EUROPE STUDY GUIDE, 2003 Steven Alan Samson  Chapter One geographical problems of East Europe                 Slavic origins of most East Europeans ethnic fragmentation                specific ethnic groups          factors favoring strong states four distinct empires                            viziers                                                    janissaries Treaty of Karlowicz                         balkanization                                                Palestine Dual Monarchy                              magyarization                             annexation of Bosnia Josip Broz                partitioning of Polish-Lithuanian state                               Junkers Crimean War                                                                                   Serbia vs. Macedonia Chapter Two Polish corridor and Danzig            Treaty of Riga                                           Curzon Line Sudetenland                                Treaty of Trianon                   King Alexander of Serbia Yugoslavia                                        Macedonia                                            Montenegro Romania                                              Bulgaria                                 Second Balkan War dwarfholders                                  Józef Piłsudski                                              Béla Kun Ahmed Zogu                                    Little Entente                               Munich conference Hitler's strategy Chapter Three Walter Ulbricht                      Stalin's strategic mistakes                Popular Front strategy Tito (Josip Broz)           Partisans vs. Ustasha vs. Chetniks               Polish underground Katyn Massacre                                                  Yalta agreement and its consequences  Chapter Four Stalin's strategy in annexing Ruthenia                        salami tactics three stages of Communist takeovers                                             attributes of Stalinism Stanisław Mikołajcyk                                                                                 Bolesław Bierut defenestration                                                                                               Jan Masaryk Smallholders Party                                                                                       Ferenc Nagy King Michael                                                                                       Ploughmen's Front King Boris                                                                                               Fatherland Front Georgi Dimitrov                                                                                             Enver Hoxha Marshall Plan                                                                            Berlin Blockade and Airlift Chapter Five role of Communist Party                                                                       General Secretary Lenin's role in shaping Communism                                                            Warsaw Pact Felix Dzerzhinsky                                                                                                   Cheka root problem: legitimacy                                                                                     lustration believers vs. opportunists                                                       reasons for Tito-Stalin split consequences of Stalin's paranoia about Titoism                            Władysław Gomułka Pilsen revolt                                                                   Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech Petöfy Circle                                                                                                    Imre Nagy Janos Kádár                                                          U.S. role in the Hungarian Revolution Chapter Six samizdat                                                                               reasons for de-Stalinization reasons for nationalization of industry                                          Comecon and autarky collectivization of agriculture                                              long-term impact of socialism housing in East Europe                                                                             jealousy factor corruption factor                                                                                        Prague Spring Gdansk                                                                                                   Lenin Shipyards Solidarity                                                                                                     Lech Wałêsa John Paul II                                                                                      Wojciech Jaruzełski Chapter Seven rise of Balkan dictatorships        pollution in East Europe role of liberal Communists in bringing down the regimes                          the debt factor Ceausescu and Romania's debt               pattern of toppling of East European regimes  Paul Kennedy's "imperial overstretch" thesis                                                  mujahedin Gorbachev's sacrifice of East Europe to join the West        ruble overhang and inflation attempts to reform repressive regimes                                    end of Brezhnev Doctrine debate over deleting Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution                    Popiełuszko factor CIA's and Soviet economists' estimates of Soviet GDP                         contagion factor Leszek Kolakowski on "fried snowballs"       Alexis de Tocqueville                  Timisoara Chapter Eight earliest parties in newly freed East Europe                                              catchall parties shock therapy                                                                      East Europe’s election rules proportional representation                                                                         Lech Wałêsa Non-Party Bloc                                                              Romania’s Democratic Coalition Ion Iliescu                                                                                        politics of outbidding center-fleeing tendencies                                                                   percent thresholds ethnic Hungarians living outside Hungary                                     outbidding in Slovakia cabinet instability                                                                     fragility of ruling coalitions immobilisme                                       role of prime minister in holding coalition together marketization and privatization                                                         coupon privatization lustration in East Germany and elsewhere Chapter Nine mixed areas                                        Bogumils               Austrian annexation of Bosnia Unity or Death                                       IMRO                                              Ante Pavelic Chetniks                                              Haiduks                                                   Ustasha weaknesses of the Yugoslav state                                                    searching for blame Slovenia independence                                                                          ethnic cleansing Dayton Agreement                                 common denominator of the three Balkan wars Chapter Ten bohemianism             subversion of centrally controlled economies by market elements World Bank study of shock therapy 

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