CONTENTS:


 1. Introduction: the Experience of Total Wars and World Revolutions……………………………………………………………………...5


·          Hobsbawm, Eric. “The Age of Total War.”…………………………………………………………………………………………………....6


 2. Modernity, Trust and Identity……………………………………………………………………………………………………………...20


·          Berezin, Mabel. “Interpreting Fascism/Explaining
Ritual”…………………………………………………………………………………...21


 3. Recurrent Modernization: Industrial, Political and Cultural
Revolutions……………………………………………………………….34


·          Read, Christopher. “Cultural Revolution”.…………………………………………………………………………………………………....35

·                                       “Industrialization and
Collectivization”……………………………………………………………………………………55


 4. The Establishment of Socialist and Post-Socialist Cultural
Hegemony………………………………………………………………....72


·          Verdery, Katherina. “What Was Socialism, and Why Did It
Fall?”…………………………………………………………………………....73

·                                          “The “Etatization” of Time in Ceauşescu’s
Romania”…………………………………………………………………..82


 5. Post-Socialist Nationalism and Anti-Feminism…………………………………………………………………………………………..91


·          Verdery, Katherina. “From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in
Contemporary Eastern Europe”……………….……...92

·                                          “Nationalism and National Sentiment in Postsocialist
Romania”………………………………………………………102


 6. National Minorities and the Challenge of Re-emerging Forms of Conflict and
Solidarity……………………………………………112


·          Brubaker, Rogers. “Rethinking Nationhood: Nation as Institutionalized Form, Practical
Category, Contingent Event.”……………………113

·                                       “National Minorities, Nationalizing States, and External
National Homelands in the New Europe.”…………………….118


 7. The Sense of Historical Injustice and the Symbolic Power of
Resentment……………………………………………………………128


·          Brubaker, Rogers. “Nationalizing States in the Old “New Europe” – and the
New”………………………………………………………..129

·                                       “Homeland Nationalism in Weimar Germany and “Weimar
Russia”…………………………………………………….142


 8. Migration, Displacement and Post-Colonial Identities in Central
Europe……………………………………………………………161


·          Laitin, David D. “A Theory of Political
Identities”……………………………………………………………………………………….....162

·                                    “Why the Peripheral Peoples Did Not Become
Russians”……………………………………………………………………..180


 9. Strategies of Cultural Assimilation and the Politics of Naming………………………………………………………………………...192


·          Laitin, David D. “Turning Megalomanians into
Ruritanians”………………………………………………………………………………...193

·                                    “The Russian-Speaking Nationality in
Formation”………………………………………………………..………………..203


10. The Cultural Power of Naming and Political Struggle………………………………………………………………………………….222


·          Bourdieu, Pierre. Language and Symbolic Power. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….223


11. Nationality, Citizenship and Social Integration in the New
Europe…………………………………………………………………...236


·          Habermas, Jürgen. “The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and
Citizenship.”………………………………...237