Modernism : the creation of nation-states / / edited by Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Gorny and Vangelis Kechriotis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910139187403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 9786155211935; 978-6-15521-193-5; 978-615-5211-93-5; 615-5211-93-0; 2-8218-1492-5; 1-283-24799-2; 9786613247995; 1-4416-8411-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (500 pages)
• Collana: Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) : texts and commentaries ; ; v. 3/1
• Altri autori (Persone): ErsoyAhmet; GornyMaciej <1976->; KechriotisVangelis
• Disciplina: 320.443
• Soggetti: Modernism (Aesthetics) - Europe, Central; Modernism (Aesthetics) - Europe, Eastern; Nationalism - Europe, Central; Nationalism - Europe, Eastern; National characteristics, European
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION The ‘Identity Reader’ Project -- CHAPTER I. MAKING OF THE MODERN STATE IN A MULTI-NATIONAL CONTEXT -- THE IDEA OF THE AUSTRIAN STATE -- AUSTRIA AND THE GUARANTEE OF ITS EXISTENCE -- WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT FROM THE HUNGARIAN CONSTITUTION FOR OUR NATIONALITY AND WHAT DO WE NEED MOST NOW? -- THE NATIONALITY QUESTION -- YUGOSLAVISM -- TO COMPATRIOTS! -- THE EASTER ARTICLE -- POLITICAL DIRECTIVES -- WHAT MOHAMMEDANS IN BOSNIA THINK -- ; STAY HERE -- STATE AND NATION -- WHAT IS TURKISM? -- CHAPTER II. SELF-DETERMINATION, DEMOCRATIZATION, AND THE HOMOGENIZING STATE -- TO SERBIAN MOTHERS -- THE LIFE OF ONE YEAR. LETTERS FROM AN ATHENIAN TO A PARISIAN LADY, 1896–97 -- THE POLITICAL STANCE OF WOMAN -- TARNOVO CONSTITUTION -- SPEECH AT THE ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE’S RADICAL PARTY IN KRAGUJEVAC -- SPEECH AT THE NIGHT ASSEMBLY OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON 24 NOVEMBER, 1918 -- THE SPEECH IN THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT -- THE REPUBLICAN MANIFESTO -- THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN ALBANIA -- THE TURKISH ORDEAL -- CZECHOSLOVAKIA’S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM -- CHAPTER III. “NATIONAL PROJECTS” AND THEIR REGIONAL FRAMEWORK -- THE CZECH QUESTION -- THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY IN GERMANY, 1859–1866 -- THREE TYPES OF POLICY -- ON NATIONAL WORK -- MEMORANDUM SENT TO LORD EDWARD GREY -- THE SLOVENES AND THE YUGOSLAVS -- THE MEMORANDUM TO SIR EDWARD GREY, 7 JANUARY, 1915 -- THE PROGRAM OF HIS FOREIGN POLICY -- BOOK OF THE BULGARIANS -- PROGRAM OF THE YUGOSLAV MUSLIM ORGANIZATION -- THE SLOVAK AS A NATIONAL INDIVIDUALITY -- ON EUROPEAN BALANCE AND PEACE -- CHAPTER IV. FEDERALISM AND THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRES -- SLAVIC POLITICS IN THE HABSBURG MONARCHY -- THE UNITED STATES OF GREATER AUSTRIA -- THE FUTURE OF THE MONARCHY -- A SECOND ACCOUNT ON INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE AND DECENTRALIZATION -- THE POLITICAL PROGRAM OF HELLENISM IN TURKEY -- THE NEW EUROPE -- A NATION IN THE MAKING -- IS UNITARY AND INTEGRAL YUGOSLAVIA POSSIBLE? -- ADDRESS DELIVERED IN VILNIUS -- ANSWER TO JÓZEF PIŁSUDSKI -- FEDERATION IN CENTRAL EUROPE -- THE PEOPLE -- SERBIA IN THE EAST -- ON PATRIOTISM -- THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS -- NEO-SERFDOM -- THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND OUR MISSIONS -- THE AUSTRIAN REVOLUTION -- THE SOCIALIST FRENZY OF TWO DECADES -- BY THE DANUBE -- THE ROMANTIC FACE OF SLOVAKIA -- THE LEGEND OF THE NATIONAL MILITIA -- THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE LIBERATION FRONT -- NATIONAL QUESTION IN YUGOSLAVIA IN THE LIGHT OF THE LIBERATION WAR
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume presents and illustrates the development of the ideologies of nation states, the "modern" successors of former empires. They exemplify the use modernist ideological framaeworks, from liberalism to socialism, in the context of the fundamental reconfiguration of the political system in this part of Europe between the 1860s and the 1930s. It also gives a panorama of the various solutions proposed for the national question in the region.