The Dilemma of Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Erika.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This book delivers a compelling analysis of how Central and Eastern European nations work to reclaim their political and national identities after decades of communist rule.It reveals the historical, cultural and political factors that make nationalism particularly salient in the region, examining its various manifestations and far-reaching.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

About the Author

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Nation, the State and the Territory

Question of definitions

Nationalism

'The nation' and the state

Nation building

Ethnicity

Epistemological position and aims of the book

Structure of the book

1 Why Is Post-​communist Europe Different from Western Europe?

Theorizing post-​communist transitions to democracy

Transitology paradigm

Identity-​relevant implications in the context of post-​communist Europe

Nation and its story in CEE

One European continent of two (somewhat) different parts

Other factors and challenges specific to CEE

Part I Nations in Flux

2 States, Nations and Citizens in Reconfigured Regions

Terminological dilemma around the altered status of ethnic groups

Further dilemma: kin-​relations

Where is 'the nation', and who are the citizens?

Stretching the nation and the concept of citizenship

Stretching the concept of the nation to wherever

3 'Shrunken' State: Nationalism as a Geopolitical Concept

The nationalist elephant in the room

Methodological nationalism

4 In the Name of the Serbian Nation

Loss of territory, loss of dominance and insecure identity

Collapse of multinational Yugoslavia

Resentment, war and Serbo-​Croat conflict

War in Bosnia-​Herzegovina

Kosovo: war in Serbia's 'holy' land

Serbia's wars: implications for studies of nationalism and international politics

The paradox of the security of states

Part II Historical Revisionism

5 Revising Historical Memory: Russia, Ukraine, Fascism and Communism

Re-​constructing modern Russia's identity

The Great Patriotic War in service of the war against Ukraine

Ukrainian nationalism: the Second World War and post-​independence.

Dilemma of inconvenient pasts

6 Unusable Past and Remembering the Holocaust

Bloodlands -​ between Germany and Russia

Lithuania under the 'double occupation'

Borderlands of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

Slovakia

Conclusion: 'New' Nationalism and Its Dilemmas

'New' nationalism?

Nationalism and its dilemmas

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5292-2526-4

OCLC:

1587431664