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With Their Backs to the Mountains - A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns (Paperback)
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With Their Backs to the Mountains - A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns (Paperback)
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This is a history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and
their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus', located in the heart of
central Europe. A little over 100,000 Carpatho-Rusyns are
registered in official censuses but their population is estimated
at around 1,000,000, the greater part in Ukraine and Slovakia. The
majority of the diaspora-nearly 600,000-lives in the US. At the
present, when it is fashionable to speak of nationalities as
"imagined communities" created by intellectuals or elites who may
live in the historic homeland, Carpatho-Rusyns provide an ideal
example of a people made-or some would say still being made-before
our very eyes. The book traces the evolution of Carpathian Rus'
from earliest prehistoric times to the present, and the complex
manner in which a distinct Carpatho-Rusyn people, since the
mid-nineteenth century, came into being, disappeared, and then
re-appeared in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse
of communist rule in central and eastern Europe. To help guide the
reader further there are 34 detailed maps plus an annotated
discussion of relevant books, chapters, and journal articles.
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