ABSTRACT
During the Cold-War era, the Balkans and Southeastern Europe were largely superseded as meaningful references in scholarly literature outside the region, except for literature on physical geography. The political divide was overriding, yet Soviet political and scholarly discourse, remarkably enough, rarely operated with the term "Eastern Europe." Economic and social historians were at the helm of scholarly regionalization, which they predicated upon what they perceived to be a distinct road of historical development of Eastern Europe related to peculiarities of feudalism, "bourgeois transformation," and capitalist development. Across Western Europe and the United States "Slavic" and "East European" institutes proliferated after 1945. But the change of political status of the Balkans/Southeastern Europe impacted differently the academic practices outside the region. An overriding tendency in Anglo-American academia until the 1960s was to treat the belt of countries from Poland to Albania as an appendage of Soviet studies. In political science, a new geography came into place, named "Moscow's (East) European satellites.".
