Beschreibung:
Tomas Balkelis is AHRC Research Associate in History at the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests include nationalism, nation-building, population displacement, forced migrations and war memory in Eastern Europe.
This book explores the making of modern Lithuania, arguing that, contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric, Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence of the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth century to the birth of an independent state in 1918.
Introduction 1. Social and Historical Dimensions of Lithuanian Nationalism Prior to 1905 2. Making the Urban Élite, 1883-1905 3. In Search of the People: The 1905 Revolution 4. The National Intelligentsia and the Women's Issue 5. In Search of the Nation's Culture: Cultural Politics of Discipline, 1907-1914 6. Nation in Exile: War, Displacement and Nation-Making, 1914-1918