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The Lands Between - Conflict in the East European Borderlands, 1870-1992 (Hardcover)
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The Lands Between - Conflict in the East European Borderlands, 1870-1992 (Hardcover)
Series: Zones of Violence
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The Lands Between investigates the causes and dynamics of conflict
in the "borderlands" of Eastern Europe: the modern Baltic republics
of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the western provinces of
Byelorussia and Ukraine, and the republic of Moldova -- areas that
have changed hands in the course of the twentieth-century on
several occasions. Alexander V. Prusin looks at these "borderlands"
as a whole, synthesizing narrower national histories into a
wider-ranging study that highlights the common factors feeding
conflict across the region. He also takes a long-term view, from
the modernizing of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires in the
late nineteenth century, through to the break-up of the Soviet
Union, with a particular focus on the 'era of conflict' between the
outbreak of the First World War and the Soviet pacification of the
area in the mid-1950s.
While admitting the importance of socio-economic cleavages and
ethnic rivalries in creating conflict, Prusin argues that the
borderlands' ethno-cultural diversity was in basic conflict with
the policies of the authorities that dominated the region, whether
these authorities were imperial or (after 1919) nation states.
Since collective identities in the borderlands were based on
ethno-communal rather than national association, connections
between ethnic groups across state borders raised suspicions that
their allegiances and identities were not necessarily compatible
with those envisioned by the ruling authority. In wartime, when the
state's economic and human resources became strained to the limit,
suspicion of the groups deemed less loyal blurred the concept of
internal and external enemies and entailed pressure on allegedly
"corrosive" ethnic elements.
Efforts to impose some sort of supranational identity upon the
patchwork of ethnically-mixed settlements thus became the standard
practice through the first half of the twentieth-century,
accelerating the conflict between the state and the population and
making the potential for extreme violence so much greater.
Simultaneously, as war progressed, violence was sustained and
exacerbated by popular participation and acquired its own
destructive logic, mutating into a vicious cycle of ethnic
conflicts and civil wars.
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