Extreme politics : nationalism, violence, and the end of Eastern Europe /
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| Author / Creator: | King, Charles, 1967- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11282544 |
| Summary: | Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. The end of communism seemed to usher in a period of radical change-an era of "extreme politics" that pitted nations, ethnic groups, and violent entrepreneurs against one another, from the wars in the Balkans and Caucasus to the apparent upsurge in nationalist mobilization throughout the region. But the last twenty years have also illustrated the incredible diversity of political life after the end of one-party rule. Extreme Politics engages with themes from the micropolitics of social violence, to the history of nationalism studies, to the nature of demographic change in Eurasia. Published twenty years since the collapse of communism, Extreme Politics charts the end of "Eastern Europe" as a place and chronicles the ongoing revolution in the scholarly study of the post-communist world. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199708246 019970824X 9780195370379 0195370376 9780195370386 0195370384 |