The triumph of Zionism has clouded recollection of competing forms of Jewish nationalism vying for power a century ago. This study explores alternative ways to construct the modern Jewish nation. Jewish nationalism emerges from this book as a Diaspora phenomenon much broader than the Zionist movement. Like its non-Jewish counterparts, Jewish nationalism was first and foremost a movement to nationalize Jews, to construct a modern Jewish nation while simultaneously masking its very modernity. This book traces this process in what was the second largest Jewish community in Europe, Galicia. The history of this vital but very much understudied community of Jews fills a critical lacuna in existing scholarship while revisiting the broader question of how Jewish nationalism - or indeed any modern nationalism - was born. Based on a wide variety of sources, many newly uncovered, this study challenges the still-dominant Zionist narrative by demonstrating that Jewish nationalism was a part of the rising nationalist movements in Europe.

Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson’s brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: what makes people live, die and kill in the name of nations? He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa, and explores the way communities were created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing, and the birth of vernacular languages-of-state. Anderson revisits these fundamental ideas, showing how their relevance has been tested by the events of the past two decades.

This study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987--the disintegration of the Soviet state--became the seemingly inevitable by 1991. It provides an original interpretation of not only the Soviet collapse, but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally. Probing the role of nationalist action as both cause and effect, Beissinger utilizes extensive event data and detailed case studies from across the U.S.S.R. during its final years to elicit the shifting relationship between pre-existing structural conditions, institutional constraints, and event-generated influences in the massive nationalist explosions that brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism (1983) provides one of the most powerful and original interpretations of modern nationalism. Drawing upon a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, politics and history, Gellner argues that nationalism is an inescapable consequence of modernity. For this new edition of Nations and Nationalism, John Breuilly, Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics and Political Science, provides a substantial introduction, analysing Gellner's arguments and tracing and evaluating the ways in which the field has changed over the past two decades. Suggestions for further reading have also been updated. Second Edition not available in the USA.

Gyan Pandey's latest book is a compelling examination of the violence that marked the partition of India in 1947, and how the preceding events have been documented. In the process, the author provides a critique of history-writing and nationalist myth-making. He also investigates how local forms of community are established by the way in which violent events are remembered and written about. The book will be of interest to historians of South Asia, to sociologists and to anyone concerned with the Indian subaltern story.

In November 1999 the first protest movements that became associated with the anti-globalisation movement took place in Seattle, and came to be seen as the starting point for globalised resistance to neoliberal capitalism. Despite initial optimism, the following years have seen little substantial progress in formulating a coherent alternative to neoliberalism. This lack of an alternative has become particularly poignant in the aftermath of the recent credit crisis, where the neoliberal mandate that appeared to be in crisis in just 2008 has reinvented itself through the guise of a new era of austerity. In this timely book, Worth assesses the growing diversity of resistance to neoliberalism - progressive, nationalist and religious - and argues that, troublingly, the more reactionary alternatives to globalisation currently provide just as coherent a base for building opposition as those associated with the traditional left-wing anti-globalisation movements. Taking in a contrasting array of case studies from around the world - from the failures of the World Social Forum to the rise of Radical Islam, the re-emergence of the far-right in Western Europe to the startling impact of the Tea Party in the US - Worth shows that while a progressive alternative is possible, it cannot be taken for granted.

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy to answer these questions. The nationalist ideal of self-rule gradually diffused over the world and delegitimized empire after empire. Nationalists created nation-states wherever the power configuration favored them, often at the end of prolonged wars of secession. The elites of many of these new states were institutionally too weak for nation-building and favored their own ethnic communities. Ethnic rebels challenged such exclusionary power structures in violation of the principles of self-rule, and neighboring governments sometimes intervened into these struggles over the state. 'Waves of War' demonstrates why nation-state formation and ethnic politics are crucial to understand the civil and international wars of the past 200 years.

Основною темою цієї нашої розвідки є націократія, себто концепція державно-політичного й соціяльно-економічного устрою, що її заступай сучасний організований український націоналізм. Для кращого вияснення ідеологічно-програмових засад націократії та її відмінностей від інших політичних концепцій уважали ми за вказане спинитися також над коротким переглядом питань демократії, соціалізму, комунізму, фашизму й диктатури, що попереджають у цьому збірникові основну тему про націократію. Працю свою рекомендуємо насамперед увазі провідних націоналістичних кадрів. Обмежений розмір цієї книжки приневолив нас надати розвідці схематичний характер проте сподіємося, що й у такій обробітці вона дає відповідь на ряд актуальних для українського націоналізму питань.

В 1930 годы Сталин и его окружение, озабоченные задачей мобилизации советского общества для грядущей войны, организовали пропагандистскую кампанию по "реабилитации" славных деятелей русского национального прошлого. В своем исследовании Д.Л.Бранденбергер прослеживает историю популистской идеологии "национал-большевизма" от 1930 годов вплоть до середины 1950 годов, обнаруживая, что идеология эта, вразрез с намерениями ее творцов, стала катализатором формирования русского национального самосознания. Раскрывая истоки "национал-большевизма" в ближайшем окружении Сталина, автор прослеживает, каким образом новая идеология внедрялась в советское общество через систему образования и массовую культуру. Важнейшей частью исследования становится попытка реконструкции "общественного мнения" сталинской эпохи, следы которого извлекаются из писем и дневников современников, из секретных сводок НКВД. "Советский человек", советское самосознание, как правило, ассоциируется с идеологией "классового сознания". Бранденбергер доказывает, что, особенно на массовом уровне, идеология сталинизма в большей степени может быть связана с русским национализмом, нежели с пролетарским интернационализмом. Эта книга не только помогает понять, почему такое мировоззрение пережило Сталина, но и проливает свет на причины возрождения соответствующих настроений в современной России.

В книге впервые проведен научный анализ национализма и связанных с ним проблем. Дан обзор различных концепций и подходов к изучению национализма. Показаны его разновидности в странах Европы, Азии и в России в историческом и культурологическом аспектах. Рассмотрены процессы формирование наций, современная динамика национализма и националистических движений. Особое внимание уделено формированию и проявлениям национальной идентичности, ее основам в виде исторических версий, ключевых символов, языка, народных традиций и социальной памяти.