With their backs to the mountains : a history of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns /

With their backs to the mountains : a history of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Magocsi, Paul R., author.
Imprint:	Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	xx, 511 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Carpatho-Rusyns -- History. Carpatho-Rusyns. Ethnic relations. Europe, Central -- Ethnic relations -- History. Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations -- History. Europe, Central. Europe, Eastern. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10507883

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ISBN:	9786155053467 6155053464 9786155053399 6155053391
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This is a history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus', located in the heart of central Europe. At the present, when it is fashionable to speak of nationalities as 'imagined communities' or as transnational constructs 'created' by intellectuals\elites who may live in the historic 'national' homeland or in the diaspora, Carpatho-Rusyns provide an ideal example of a people made--or some would say still being made--before our very eyes. The book traces the evolution of Carpathian Rus' from earliest pre-historic times to the present and the complex manner in which a distinct Carpatho-Rusyn people, since the mid-nineteenth century, came into being, disappeared, and then re-appeared in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of Communist rule in central and eastern Europe. The book, while based on the author's four decades of erudition on the subject, eschews scholarly jargon and is written in an accessible reader-friendly style"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Carpatho-Rusyns and the land of Carpathian Rus'
Carpathian Rus' in prehistoric times
The Slavs and their arrival in the Carpathians
State formation in central Europe
Carpathian Rus' until the early 16th century
The Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and Carpathian Rus'
The Habsburg restoration in Carpathian Rus'
Habsburg reforms and their impact on Carpatho-Rusyns
The Revolution of 1848 and the Carpatho-Rusyn national awakening
Carpathian Rus' in Austria-Hungary, 1868-1914
Carpatho-Rusyn diasporas before World War I
Carpathian Rus' during World War I, 1914-1918
The end of the old and the birth of a new order, 1918-1919
Subcarpathian Rus' in interwar Czechoslovakia, 1919-1938
The Prešov Region in interwar Slovakia, 1919-1938
The Lemko Region in interwar Poland, 1919-1939
Carpatho-Rusyn diasporas during the interwar years, 1919-1938
Other peoples in Subcarpathian Rus'
Autonomous Subcarpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Ukraine, 1938-1939
Carpathian Rus' during World War II, 1939-1944
Carpathian Rus' in transition, 1944-1945
Subcarpathian Rus'/Transcarpathia in the Soviet Union, 1945-1991
The Prešov Region in postwar and Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-1989
The Lemko Region and Lemko Rusyns in Communist Poland, 1945-1989
Carpatho-Rusyn diasporas old and new, 1945-1989
The Revolutions of 1989
Post-Communist Transcarpathia-Ukraine
The post-Communist Prešov Region and the Lemko Region-Slovakia and Poland
Other Carpatho-Rusyn communities in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989
Carpathian Rus' : real or imagined?