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Extreme Politics - Essays on Nationalism, Violence, and Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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Extreme Politics - Essays on Nationalism, Violence, and Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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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? In this wide-ranging and readable set of
essays, Charles King 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 politicsthat 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. Understanding these changes requires an
appreciation for the multiple pathways from communism, as well as
the particular ways in which scholars from the West have engaged
with the region. As King shows, recognizing the intellectual
predispositions and trajectories in the West is critical to
understanding how scholars have interpreted-and at times
misinterpreted-the complex politics of the ex-communist East.
Extreme Politics engages with themes from the micropolitics of
social violence, to the history of nationalism studies, to the
nature of migration and demographic change in Eurasia. Published
exactly twenty years since the collapse of the Communist system,
Extreme Politics charts the end of Eastern Europeas a place and
chronicles the ongoing revolution in the scholarly study of Russia,
the Balkans, and the wider postcommunist world.
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