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The reconstruction of nations : Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999
Author
Title
The reconstruction of nations : Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 / Timothy Snyder.
ISBN
030012841X
128172176X
9781281721761
0300095694
9780300095692
9780300128413
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
Copyright Notice Date
©2003
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 367 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Notes
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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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 1940s), and examines Polands recent successful negotiations with its newly independent Eastern neighbors, as it has channeled national interest toward peace.
Variant and related titles
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2024
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-349) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. The contested Lithuanian-Belarusian fatherland
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1569-1863)
Lithuania! My fatherland! (1863-1914)
The First World War and the Wilno question (1914-1939)
The Second World War and the Vilnius question (1939-1945)
Epilogue: Soviet Lithuanian Vilnius (1945-1991)
pt. 2. The embattled Ukrainian borderland
Early modern Ukraine (1569-1914)
Galicia and Volhynia at the margin (1914-1939)
The ethnic cleansing of Western Ukraine (1939-1945)
The ethnic cleansing of Southeastern Poland (1945-1947)
Epilogue: Communism and cleansed memories (1947-1981)
pt. 3. The reconstructed Polish homeland
Patriotic oppositions and state interests (1945-1989)
The Normative Nation-Stave (1989-1991)
European standards and Polish interests (1992-1993)
Envoi: returns to Europe.
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