Professor Richard Crampton

Emeritus Fellow

Richard Crampton became a lecturer in History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Edmund Hall in 1990. He was subsequently made professor of East European history in 1996.

Richard’s writing has focused on Bulgaria and the Balkans. While he has a particular interest in European history from 1918 to 1945, his histories of Bulgaria are comprehensive works that span Bulgaria’s medieval origins and twentieth-century political turmoil.

The volume on Bulgaria for the Oxford History of Modern Europe series.

Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century

With Ben Crampton.
This guide attempts to draw a definitive picture of the changing shape of central Europe from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, charting the emergence of a volatile world from the abrupt collapse of the communist system. As well as 129 maps, it includes diagrams and a textual commentary. It gives a general introduction to the physical, ethnic and religious composition of the region; includes summary maps of Eastern Europe in 1900, 1923, 1945 and 1994.

ISBN: 0415164613

A Concise History of Bulgaria

Providing a general introduction to the history of Bulgaria and the Bulgarians, this text traces the story from the days when Bulgaria was the centre of a powerful mediaeval empire, through the long centuries of Ottoman rule, to the cultural renaissance of the 19th century and the political upheavals of the 20th century.

ISBN: 052156719X

Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century – and After

A comprehensive political history of Eastern Europe in the 20th century. The book has an introduction which is followed by chapters on individual states and political movements from the end of the first world war through to the collapse of Communism and the emergence in the region of post-totalitarian states.

ISBN: 0415164230

The Balkans since the Second World War

Covering Greece as well as the states which fell under Communist rule after the Second World War the book provides a political narrative of the evolution of the Balkan states from 1945 to 2001. A great deal of attention is paid to the decline of Yugoslavia, its eventual dissolution and the conflicts which this engendered.

ISBN: 0-582-24883-3

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