Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism

This book focuses on questions of identity that have confronted the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the communist system that had provided them with an identity for several decades of the twentieth century (and in the case of much of the Soviet Union, three decades before that). The essays in this volume attempt to elucidate and understand the issues of ethnic and national identity and their relationship to the emerging statehood in various regions of the post-communist world.