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by Daniel Chirot (Editor)

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Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest of the world except for that unique part of the West which has given us a false model of what was "normal," Eastern Europe developed slowly. The weight of established class relations, geography, lack of technological innovation, and wars kept the area from growing richer.

In the nineteenth century the West exerted a powerful influence, but it was political more than economic. Nationalism and the creation of newly independent aspiring nation-states then began to shape national economies, often in unfavorable ways.

One of this book's most important lessons is that while economics may limit the freedom of action of political players, it does not determine political outcomes. The authors offer no simple explanations but rather a theoretically complex synthesis that demonstrates the interaction of politics and economics.

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The classics question-Why did the Industrial Revolution take place in the West, and why in England?-remains as interesting today as ever.

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  • Title The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages Until the Early Twentieth Century
  • Author Daniel Chirot (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st TradePB Edit
  • Pages 269
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1991-08-12
  • ISBN 9780520076402 / 0520076400
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 5.99 x 0.7 in (22.73 x 15.21 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Category History - General History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.947

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Daniel Chirot is Professor of International Studies and of Sociology at the University of Washington.
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