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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brubaker, Rogers

Titel

Nationalism reframed: Nationhood and the national question in the New Europe

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, Mass: Cambridge Univ. Pr

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Europe has been moving back to the national-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia into a score of nationally defined successor states. This massive reorganization of political space along national lines has engendered distinctive, dynamically interlocking, and in some cases explosive forms of nationalism... The book is in two parts. The author's theoretical argument is developed in the first part. The opening chapter argues nation as institutionalized form, practical category, contingent event. Chapter 2 discusses this in relation to the Soviet Union and its successor states. Chapter 3 develops a dynamic and relational approach to nationalism in post-communist Europe and the former Soviet Union. The chapters comprising part II develop historical and comparative perspectives on the national question in the "New Europe". Chapter 4 reverses the emphasis on "nationalizing states". Chapter 5 takes as its point similarities between Weimar Germany and post-Soviet Russia. The final chapter analyzes post- imperial migrations of ethnic unmixing in historical and comparative perspectives. (DIPF/text taken from the original/St.).