Skip to content

Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 080477806X

ISBN-13: 9780804778060

Edition: 2012

Authors: Serhiy Bilenky

Shipping box This item qualifies for FREE shipping.
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, when Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known as nations or nationalities. Bilenky approaches this topic from a transnational perspective, revealing the ways in which modern Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian nationalities were formed and refashioned through the challenges they presented to one another, both as neighboring communities and as minorities within a given community. Further, all three nations defined themselves as a result of their interactions with the Russian and Austrian empires. Fueled by the Romantic search for national roots,…    
Customers also bought

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/16/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 408
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.452

Preface
Introduction: Intellectual and Sociopolitical Background
Mapping Imagined Communities: Mental Geography
"From the Baltic to the Black Sea": Poland's Borders
"Independent Part of the Universe": Russia's Borders
"Russia's Italy," or "Between Poland and the Crimea": Ukraine's Borders
Representing Imagined Communities: Idioms of Nationality
Reconsidering Nationality: Poland
"Stretching the Skin of the Nation": Russia's Empire and Nationality
Making One Nationality Through the Unmaking of Others: Ukraine
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index