Snyder, Timothy.

The reconstruction of nations : Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 / Timothy Snyder. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003. - xv, 367 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-349) and index.

PART I - The Contested Lithuanian-Belarusian Fatherland : 1. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1569-1863) -- 2. Lithuania! My Fatherland! (1863-1914) -- 3. The First World War and the Wilno Question (1914-1939) -- 4. The Second World War and the Vilnius Question (1939-1945) -- 5. Epilogue: Soviet Lithuanian Vilnius (1945-1991). PART II - The Embattled Ukrainian Borderland : 6. Early Modern Ukraine (1569-1914) -- 7. Galicia and Volhynia at the Margin (1914-1939) -- 8. The Ethnic Cleansing of Western Ukraine (1939-1945) -- 9. The Ethnic Cleansing of Southeastern Poland (1945-1947) -- 10 Epilogue: Communism and Cleansed Memories (1947-1981). PART III - The Reconstructed Polish Homeland : 11. Patriotic Oppositions and State Interests (1945-1989) -- 12. The Normative Nation-State (1989-1991) -- 13. European Standards and Polish Interests (1992-1993) -- 14. Envoi: Returns to Europe. Abbreviations. Archives. Document Collections.

0300095694 (alk. paper)

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Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

DJK48.5 / .S66 2003

947.084