Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.
Contents
1. Rethinking nationhood: nation as institutionalized form, practical category, contingent event -- 2. Nationhood and the national question in the Soviet Union and its successor states: an institutionalist account -- 3. National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe -- 4. Nationalizing states in the old "New Europe" - and the new -- 5. Homeland nationalism in Weimar Germany and "Weimar Russia" -- 6. Aftermaths of empire and the unmixing of peoples.