1. THE EASTERN EUROPE
Can we define it?

2. Geography, demography and religion
From the Baltics in north west to tha Balkans in the sout east
From Sibir in the north east to Germany, Austria and Italy in the south west
The Slavs people, the south Slavs (Balkans) and the Baltics, Jews
The Ortodox church from the old Byzantine Empire
The eastern Catholic church
The Jewish church

3. The countries Poland The Czech Republic Slovakia Hungary Estonia
Lartvia
Lithuania
Belarus
Ukraina
Russia
Moldova
Romania
Bulgaria
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
Montenegro
Kosovo
Albania
Macedonia

4. Great power’s influance
Russia
Tha Habsburgs (Austria- Hungary)
Prussia - Germany (late years)
The Ottoman Empire
France (Napoleon)

5. Economy and freedom A long lastin fuedal system in the east
Unfree peasants without their own farms
Huge farms – few and big land owners
Ineffective agriculturing
Late industrialization
Unfree economy – no market economy
Socialist economy – communism – late years

6. Wars and disorder Many outside inviders Civil wars The two world wars
Ethnic cleansing and other «cleansings»
Terror

7. The Soviet Bloc
Many countries were forced into the communist bloc dominated by Soviet Union (Russia)
The Iron Curtain devided Europe physical
Opression, terror and constricted freedom
Failed economic development

8. Freedom, but what about democracy?
!989 – The revolutions and freedom from the communism
The confusing 90-th
Part of a Common European comunety – integration - EU and NATO
And the future?
THAT IS YOU…………….