The reconstruction of nations : Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 / Timothy Snyder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snyder, Timothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 367 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940's), and examines Poland's recent successful negotiations with its newly independent Eastern neighbors, as it has channeled national interest toward peace.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I The Contested Lithuanian-Belarusian Fatherland

1 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1569-1863), I5

2 Lithuania! My Fatherland! (1863-1914), 31

3 The First World War and the Wilno Question (1914-1939), 52

4 The Second World War and the Vilnius Question (1939-1945), 73

5 Epilogue: Soviet Lithuanian Vilnius (1945-1991), 90

Part II The Embattled Ukrainian Borderland

6 Early Modern Ukraine (1569-1914), I05

7 Galicia and Volhynia at the Margin (1914-1939), 133

8 The Ethnic Cleansing of Western Ukraine (1939-1945), 154

9 The Ethnic Cleansing of Southeastern Poland (1945-1947), I79

10 Epilogue: Communism and Cleansed Memories (1947-1981), 202 Part III The Reconstructed Polish Homeland

11 Patriotic Oppositions and State Interests (1945-1989), 217

12 The Normative Nation-State (1989-1991), 232

13 European Standards and Polish Interests (1992-1993), 256

14 Envoi: Returns to Europe, 277

Abbreviations, 294

Archives, 295

Document Collections, 296

Notes, 299

Acknowledgments, 350

Index, 355.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-349) and index.

ISBN:

9786611721763

9781281721761

128172176X

9780300128413

030012841X

OCLC:

952732393