Best Eastern European History Books
97. 
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by:
Michael Parenti
4.40 avg rating β 8,487 ratings 97. 
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague 3.77 avg rating β 1,176 ratings
105. 
Spectator in Hell - A British Soldier's Story of Imprisonment in Auschwitz
by:
Colin Rushton
4.21 avg rating β 278 ratings 
105. 
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
by:
Victor Sebestyen
4.24 avg rating β 2,652 ratings 
105. 
111. 
Borderlands of Western Civilization: A History of East Central Europe
by:
Oscar Halecki
3.41 avg rating β 17 ratings 
111. 
The Red Machine: the Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada's Game
by:
Lawrence Martin
4.51 avg rating β 37 ratings 111. 
Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
by:
R.M. Douglas
4.15 avg rating β 364 ratings 111. 
Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
by:
Kremlin, Moscow
3.95 avg rating β 19 ratings 111. 
Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does 3.91 avg rating β 324 ratings
117. 
117. 
The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
by:
Tara Zahra
3.86 avg rating β 325 ratings 121. 
121. 
The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe 3.89 avg rating β 73 ratings
125. 
128. 
A Country in the Moon : Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland
by:
Michael Moran
3.55 avg rating β 220 ratings 
131. 
The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe
by:
David Ost
4.13 avg rating β 62 ratings 131. 
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City Between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
by:
Tarik Cyril Amar
3.31 avg rating β 36 ratings 131. 
140. 
The Partitions of Poland: 1772, 1793, 1795
by:
Jerzy Lukowski
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7 ratings 
140. 
Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
by:
Francine Hirsch
4.02 avg rating β 115 ratings 140. 
Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies?
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.27 avg rating β 26 ratings 
145. 
The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
by:
George Weigel
4.31 avg rating β 237 ratings 145. 
The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse
by:
Carlos MartΓnez
4.31 avg rating β 116 ratings 145. 
Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans
by:
Jasmin Mujanovic
4.27 avg rating β 59 ratings 
150. 
The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt
by:
Julian Borger
4.12 avg rating β 511 ratings 
155. 
158. 
After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655 - 1660
by:
Robert I. Frost
3.91 avg rating β 11 ratings 158. 
Unvanquished: Joseph Pilsudski, Resurrected Poland, and the Struggle for Eastern Europe 4.44 avg rating β 36 ratings
161. 
164. 
Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat
by:
Wesley K. Clark
3.43 avg rating β 218 ratings 166. 
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
by:
Clea Koff
4.01 avg rating β 2,952 ratings 167. 
God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795
by:
Norman Davies
4.22 avg rating β 777 ratings 
169. 
Guerrilla Radio: Rock 'N' Roll Radio and Serbia's Underground Resistance (Nation Books)
by:
Matthew Collin
3.98 avg rating β 161 ratings 171. 
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
by:
Γ
sne Seierstad
3.85 avg rating β 980 ratings 
172. 
Regards from Serbia: A Cartoonist's Diary of a Crisis in Serbia 3.96 avg rating β 161 ratings
176. 
177. 
Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East
by:
Soner ΓaΔaptay
3.79 avg rating β 150 ratings 179. 
There Was and There Was Not: A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
by:
Meline Toumani
4.07 avg rating β 578 ratings 
180. 
The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
by:
Taner Akçam
4.27 avg rating β 70 ratings 182. 
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power
by:
Sean McMeekin
3.90 avg rating β 493 ratings 183. 
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
by:
Vasily Grossman
4.19 avg rating β 3,620 ratings 183. 
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
by:
Leslie P. Peirce
3.77 avg rating β 744 ratings 
186. 
Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis
by:
Jud Nirenberg
4.22 avg rating β 23 ratings 187. 
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
by:
Robert D. Kaplan
3.81 avg rating β 1,340 ratings 188. 
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
by:
Ruth von Bernuth
3.94 avg rating β 16 ratings 
190. 
From Warsaw to Rome: General Anders' Exiled Polish Army in the Second World War
by:
Martin Williams
4.50 avg rating β 12 ratings 191. 
Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917-21
by:
Orlando Figes
3.95 avg rating β 40 ratings 191. 
193. 
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
by:
Halik Kochanski
4.27 avg rating β 323 ratings 195. 
The Lordsβ Jews: MagnateβJewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century
by:
M. Rosman
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 195. 
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
by:
Claudio Magris
3.89 avg rating β 1,836 ratings 197. 
The Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Vienna
by:
Angus Robertson
3.57 avg rating β 113 ratings 198. 
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
by:
Edith Sheffer
3.81 avg rating β 1,851 ratings 199. 
