Nationalism Reframed Nationhood and the National Question in the Ne Europe [Paperback]

Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.This study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union develops an original account of the interlocking and opposed nationalisms of national minorities, the nationalizing states in which they live, and the external national homelands to which they are linked by external ties.This study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union develops an original account of the interlocking and opposed nationalisms of national minorities, the nationalizing states in which they live, and the external national homelands to which they are linked by external ties.Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Rogers Brubaker develops an original account of the interlocking and opposed nationalisms of national minorities, the nationalizing states in which they live, and the external national homelands to which they are linked by external ties. He then analyzes contemporary nationalisms in historical and comparative perspective, tracing the parallels between the Eastern European nationalisms of today and those of the interwar period.Part I. Rethinking Nationhood and Nationalism: 1. Rethinking nationhood: nation as institutionalized form, practical category, contingent event; 2. Nationhood and the national question in the Soviet Union; 3. National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe; Part II. The Old 'New Europe' and the New: 4. Nationalizing states in the old 'New Europe' - and the new; 5. Homeland nationalism in Weimar Germany and 'Weimar Russia'; 6. Aftermaths of empire and the unmixing of peoples. In a series of vigorous and rigorous studies of the shifting triadic relations between 'nationalizing states,' 'national minorities,' and their 'external national homelands' in postimperial Eulã"