A new history of the rise of nationalism and national self-assertion in East Central Europe during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
John Connelly is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History and director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education and From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews. He lives in Kensington, California.
"If you want to understand why illiberal democracy is not the
newest of ideas, or how a raft of leaders has emerged in Hungary,
Poland and the Balkans who seem to echo a dark time in our
continent’s history, this compelling book, covering the last 200
years in the region, is a good place to start. . . . Few recent
works have made the past so relevant to our times."---Victor
Sebestyen, Sunday Times
"Connelly captures superbly the divergences and rivalries within
his basket of nationalities: how little coordination took place
between them; how little they recognised what he calls their
‘common predicament.’"---R.J.W. Evans, Literary Review
"A rich narrative history of Central and Eastern Europe."---Damir
Marusic, Washington Examiner
"[From Peoples into Nations] will doubtless emerge as a landmark
contribution to the study of nationalism as a political force in
Eastern Europe."
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"The author has provided his reader not only with a detailed ‘crash
course’ on how the people of Eastern Europe formed
nations there, but also with a ‘road map’ for further intellectual
immersion. John Connelly’s monograph, therefore, serves as a
valuable contribution to the broader understanding of Eastern
Europe and an introductory textbook on a geographic space where
more good and bad happened during the twentieth century than
anywhere else."---Paweł Markiewicz, Slavonic and East European
Review
"A magisterial account about Eastern Europe that forcefully reminds
us of the enduring and adaptable power of national passions in
modern history. . . .Connelly is undeniably one of the best experts
in regional history of central and eastern Europe, but most of all,
he is a comparative historian of nation-states. . . .[B]efore any
vast global comparisons can be made, we need rich, rigorous, and
authoritative regional histories. From Peoples into Nations
delivers just that."---Małgorzata Mazurek, H-Diplo
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