Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism

ISBN-13: 9780415460224 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 181 str.

E. Kanet Roger

Opis

This book focuses on questions of identity that have confronted the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the communist system that had provided them with an identity for several decades of the twentieth century (and in the case of much of the Soviet Union, three decades before that). The essays in this volume attempt to elucidate and understand the issues of ethnic and national identity and their relationship to the emerging statehood in various regions of the post-communist world.

Spis treści

1 Identities and Nations in the Post-Communist World   2. Are You Hungarian or Bulgarian: National and Ethnic identity in Central and Eastern Europe?  3. The Caucasian Connection: Identity Tensions in the Ballets of Aram Khachaturian  4. Representing the Empire – the Meaning of Siberia for Russian Imperial Identity  5. (Re)Presenting Identity: National Archipelagos in Kazan  6. (Re-)Construction of Collective Identities After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Russian-Speakers in Estonia  7. National Identity, Europeanization and Euroscepticism  8. National Identity and National Interests in Polish Eastern Policy, 1989– 2004  9. The Nature of Russia’s Identity: ‘Russia and the West’ in Post-Soviet Culture

O autorze

Roger E. Kanet is Professor of International Studies at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. He has published widely on communist and postcommunist Europe. His most recent publications include From Superpower to Besieged Global Power: Restoring World Order after the Failure of the Bush Doctrine (Georgia, 2008); Russia, Re-Emerging Great Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); The New Security Environment. The Impact on Russia, Central and Eastern Europe (Ashgate, 2005); Resolving Regional Conflicts (Illinois, 1998); Post-Communist States in the World Community (Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 1998); and The Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation (Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 1997). Kanet has served as Dean of the School of International Studies at the University of Miami and earlier as Associate Vice-Chancellor and Director of International Programs and Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.