Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916458938 ISBN 13: 9780916458935

Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2001

Synopsis

Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland.

Supplemented by a bibliography of the work of Roman Szporluk, these fresh, urgent essays mirror Szporluk's broad and comparativist approach. Topics range from the rise of Ukrainian national consciousness in Galicia, to nationalism in contemporary Serbia; from the rise of private property in the Russia of Catherine II, to contemporary Russian attitudes toward Ukrainian nation building. Other essays explore the impact of theories of nationalism on the discipline of history and critique Ernest Gellner's "constructivist" theory of the nation.

About this title

About the Author:

Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judiac Studies, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, and Research Scientist at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0916458938
• ISBN 13: 9780916458935
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672
• Editor: Gitelman Zvi, Hajda Lubomyr A., Himka John-Paul, Solchanyk Roman