The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999

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Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and examines Poland’s recent successful negotiations with its newly independent Eastern neighbors, as it has channeled national interest toward peace. Contents Names and Sources Gazetteer Maps Introduction Part I. The Contested Lithuanian- Belarusian Fatherland Chapter 1. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1569–1863) Chapter 2. Lithuania! My Fatherland! (1863–1914) Chapter 3. The First World War and the Wilno Question (1914–1939) Chapter 4. The Second World War and the Vilnius Question (1939–1945) Chapter 5. Epilogue Part II. The Embattled Ukrainian Borderland Chapter 6. Early Modern Ukraine (1569–1914) Chapter 7. Galicia and Volhynia at the Margin (1914–1939) Chapter 8. The Ethnic Cleansing of Western Ukraine (1939–1945) Chapter 9. The Ethnic Cleansing of Southeastern Poland (1945–1947) Chapter 10. Epilogue Part III. The Reconstructed Polish Homeland Chapter 11. Patriotic Oppositions and State Interests (1945–1989) Chapter 12. The Normative Nation-State (1989–1991) Chapter 13. European Standards and Polish Interests (1992–1993) Chapter 14. Envoi Abbreviations Document Collections Notes Acknowledgments Index