Product Description: The "national question" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with major consideration of the Soviet phase...read more

Product Description: Diesem Thema war im September 2001 eine internationale Tagung in Wien gewidmet, deren Ergebnisse nun vorliegen. Der Stellenwert der Geschichte ist im östlichen Europa auch heute noch erheblich höher als in den Ländern Westeuropas, weil ihr die Aufgabe der Legitimation der neuen Staaten und Nationen zufiel, mit allen daraus resultierenden Gefahren, etwa dem Aufbau von Feindbildern...read more

Product Description: The series of four sessions on the Russian-Ukrainian encounter held alternately at Columbia University and Cologne University from June 1994 to September 1995 had their origin in both the world of great political events and the world of scholarly discussion...read more

Product Description: The terrible events afflicting Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tajikistan fill the news, commanding the world's attention. This timely volume offers rare insight into the background of these catastrophic conflicts. First published in German on the eve of the breakup of the Yugoslav and Soviet republics, it is one of the few books in any language to analyze, in detail and in depth, the historical and contemporary situation of Muslims in former communist states and thus clarifies the sources, development, and implications of the events that dominate today's foreign news...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Following the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars the creation and consolidation of nation states became one of the overriding issues of European politics. It dominated the actions and aspirations of politicians and peoples throughout the 19th century and was a major cause of the increasingly disastrous conflicts towards the turn of the century, culminating in the First - and on a different scale - the Second World War...read more

Product Description: Teil 1: Kleine Volker im Verband multinationaler Reiche: J. Goldberg: Die juedischen Gutspachter in Polen-Litauen und die Bauern im 17. und 18. Jh. u E. Hosch: Zur Diskussion ueber Nationwerdung und Staat in Finnland u A. Kappeler: Die Ukrainer um 1900 u F...read more