This is a huge topic and there are very many good books to suggest. A standard text on economic development is Sylla and Toniolo's "Patterns of European Industrialization" which does focus a lot on post-1800 history but also gives a solid modern perspective on the very influential Alexander Gerschenkron's theories on economic development; Gerschenkron himself is a Ukrainian-American who is one of the foremost thinkers of the Austrian School of Economics. J.L. Van Zanden's "The long road to the industrial revolution" is also good; a bit more esoteric but broader in scope.

A more recent, less economic, and more readable history analyzing the impact of communism on Eastern Europe is "Cold War Europe: The Politics of a Contested Continent" by Mark S. Gilbert at Johns Hopkins.