Preface The Contributors Chapters The Role of Myth: An Anthropological Perspective, or:'The Reality of the Really Made-Up' Joanna Overing The Functions of Myth and a Taxonomy of Myths George Schopflin The 'Golden Age' and National renewal Anthony Smith The Myth of European Unity Sonja Puntscher Riekmann Myth-Making and National Identity: The Case of the GDR Mary Fulbrook Making History: Myth and the Construction of American Nationhood Susan-Mary Grant They Myth of Divine Election and Afrikaner Ethnogenesis Bruce Cauthen National Myths in the New Czech Liberalism Kieran Williams Polish National Mythologies Norman Davies National Mythology in the History of Ideas in Latvia: A View from Religious Studies Agita Misane and Aija Priedite The Myth of Zion among East European Jewry John D. Klier Myths of National History in Belarus and Ukraine Andrew Wilson The Russian National Myth Repudiated Geoffrey Hosking Davies
George Schopflin is Senior Lecturer in Politics at S.S.E.E.S., University of London. His books include Politics in Eastern Europe, 1945-1992 (1995). GeoffreyHosking is Professor of Russian History and Deputy Director of S.S.E.E.S., University of London. His book Russia: Empire and People will be published by Harper Collins in 1997.
