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Nationalism and communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union : a basic contradiction? / Walter A. Kemp.
Van Pelt Library HX550.N3 K396 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kemp, Walter A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism and communism--Europe, Eastern.
- Nationalism and communism.
- Nationalism and communism--Soviet Union.
- Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--20th century.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Eastern Europe.
- Politics and government.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 292 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This book analyzes and explains how Communist theorists and practitioners tried to cope with nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Walter Kemp looks at the writings of Marx and Engels in the 1840s to the collapse of the Communist bloc and the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991. He identifies a cyclical pattern of behavior that characterized Communism's attempts to come to terms with nationalism: a pattern which recurred until the 1980s at which time the ideological and political discrepancies created by the incongruence of nationalism and communism had become so antagonistic as to act as a major catalyst in the collapse of the Communist system.
- Contents:
- The Terms 2
- Communism 2
- Nation, State and Patriotism 6
- Nationalism 7
- National Consciousness 9
- Political Culture 16
- The Political Element 17
- Rival Salvation Movements 18
- The Uniqueness of Enigmatic Nationalism 20
- 2 Reconciling the Basic Contradiction 22
- Marx and Engels 22
- The Nationalization of Socialism 32
- Bauer and Renner 34
- The Czech Social Democrats and the Collapse of the Gesamtpartei 40
- Luxemburg and Kautsky 43
- Lenin 45
- Stalin 54
- 3 From Socialist Theory to Communist Realpolitik 57
- Short-Term Concessions with Long-Term Repercussions 58
- The Federalist Concession 61
- The Right to Self-Determination 63
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice Dilemma 65
- Consolidating the Revolutionary Gains 66
- Federalist in Form, Centrist in Content 69
- Sham Federalism 71
- A Superstructure with Weak Foundations 74
- Korenizatsiia 78
- National in Form, Socialist in Content 80
- A Cyclical Undoing 83
- Socialist Patriotism and the Historyless Soviets 86
- Socialism in One Country 87
- The Growth of the State 88
- The 1936 Constitution 90
- The Great Patriotic War 91
- The Paradox of Coercion and the Example of National Communism 92
- 4 Heirs to the Great Traditions of the Nation 94
- The Ideological Dilemma 95
- The Post-War Mood 97
- The Problem with Slovakia 102
- Spin-doctor Nejedly 104
- Jan Hus
- A Good Communist 107
- Other Selective Memories 108
- Tightening the Screws 110
- More Nationalism, Not Less 112
- Sokol
- Clipping the Falcon's Wings 113
- Masaryk 116
- Keeping the National Forms 117
- Postage Stamps 119
- Somewhere Between Cosmopolitanism and 'Bourgeois-Nationalism' 119
- Antithesis of the Political Culture 121
- The Dilemma of Socialist Patriotism 123
- 5 Socialist Patriotism or National Communism? 127
- The Theoretical Problem 128
- Revisionism 130
- A New Course? 134
- Djilas and Nagy on Nationalism 139
- Poland: Elites and Legitimacy 142
- Legitimacy 143
- The Polish Example 144
- Hungary: The Importance of Symbols 146
- Khruschev: Another Sorcerer's Apprentice 147
- Romania and Economic Nationalism 149
- Czechoslovakia: The Limits of Nationalism and Internationalism 154
- Lithuania and the Inappropriateness of the Soviet Model 158
- Anatanas Snieckus and the Lithuanian Communist Party 159
- Native Communists: The Role of the New Elite 162
- Decentralization and Protectionism 164
- Snieckus as a National Communist? 166
- 6 The Contradiction Apparent 173
- Captive Minds 174
- Poland: National Symbolism in a Workers' Revolution 175
- Attempts at Strengthening Nationalist Credentials 179
- Yugoslavia 182
- Brezhnev 187
- Andropov 190
- Gorbachev and the Winds of Change 192
- The Buckets Overflow 195
- Explosion of the Dialectic 197
- Yeltsin and Expressions of 'Sovereignty' 201
- Collapse of the Union 202
- 7 Nationalism, Communism and the Politics of Identity 208
- Short-Sighted Post-Communist Hubris 208
- An Explosion of Nationalism 208
- Capitalism, Globalism and the Persistence of Nationalism 211
- A Crisis of Identity 213
- Living with Nationalism 214
- Implications for the Study of International Relations 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312217994
- 0333741579
- OCLC:
- 39633625
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