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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462449103321

Autore

Bilenʹkyĭ Serhiĭ

Titolo

Romantic nationalism in Eastern Europe [[electronic resource] ] : Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian political imaginations / / Serhiy Bilenky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8056-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe

Disciplina

320.540947

Soggetti

Nationalism - Europe, Eastern - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Europe, Eastern Politics and government 19th century

Europe, Eastern Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Intellectual and Sociopolitical Background; Part I: Mapping Imagined Communities: Mental Geography; 1. "From the Baltic to the Black Sea": Poland's Borders; 2. "Independent Part of the Universe": Russia's Borders; 3. "Russia's Italy," or "Between Poland and the Crimea": Ukraine's Borders; Part II: Representing Imagined Communities: Idioms of Nationality; 4. Reconsidering Nationality: Poland; 5. "Stretching the Skin of the Nation": Russia's Empire and Nationality; 6. Making One Nationality Through the Unmaking of Others: Ukraine; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography

Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830's and 1840's, 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