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Title

Theoretical and comparative perspectives on nationalism : new directions in cross-cultural and post-communist studies / Taras Kuzio ; with a foreword by Paul Robert Magocsi.

Author

Kuzio, Taras

Publication

Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Magocsi, Paul R.

Description

423 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

This volume brings together 15 articles divided into four sections on the role of nationalism in transitions to democracy, the application of theory to country case studies, and the role played by history and myths in the forging of national identities and nationalisms. The book develops new theories and frameworks through engaging with leading scholars of nationalism: Hans Kohn's propositions are discussed in relation to an applicability of the term 'civic' (with no ethno-cultural connotations) to liberal democracies, Rogers Brubaker over the usefulness of dividing European states into 'civic' and 'nationalizing' states when the former have historically been 'nationalisers', Will Kymlicka on the applicability of multiculturalism to post-communist states, and Paul Robert Magocsi on the lack of data to support claims of revivals by national minorities in Ukraine. The book also engages with 'transitology' over the usefulness of comparative studies of transitions in regions that underwent only political reforms, and those that had 'quadruple transitions,' implying simultaneous democratic and market reforms, as well as state and nation building. A comparative study of Serbian and Russian diasporas focuses on why ethnic Serbs and Russians living outside Serbia and Russia reacted differently to the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the USSR. The dissects the writing of Russian and Soviet history that continues to utilize imperial frameworks of history, analyzes the re-writing of Ukrainian history within post-colonial theories, and discusses the forging of Ukraine's identity within theories of 'Others' as central to the shaping of identities. The collections of articles proposes a new framework of study of Ukrainian nationalism as a broader research phenomenon by placing nationalism in Ukraine within a theoretical and comparative perspective.

Series Statement

Soviet and post-soviet politics and society, 1614-3515 ; 71

Uniform Title

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society 71.

Alternative Title

New directions in cross-cultural and post-communist studies

Subject

• Nationalism > Cross-cultural studies
• Nationalism > Former Soviet republics > Case studies
• Post-communism > Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Cross-cultural studies

Note

• Collection of texts published previously.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 3898218155 (pbk.)
• 9783898218153

OCLC

• 191828952
• SCSB-11224482

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library