Communist Quest for National Legitimacy in Europe, 1918-1989 - Socialist Nations

Informationen zum Autor Martin Mevius was educated at the universities of Oxford (D.Phil.)! Cambridge (M.Phil.)! and Amsterdam (MA). He published his first monograph! Agents of Moscow: The Hungarian Communist Party and the Origins of Socialist Patriotism! 1941-1953 (Oxford: OUP 2005) to critical acclaim. He has also published widely as a journalist in the Dutch and British media! among others for The Guardian and Private Eye. Presently he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Klappentext Deals with some of the popular misunderstandings about the incompatibility of communism and nationalism! and shows how communist parties throughout Europe consistently made appeals to popular nationalism. Zusammenfassung This book tackles popular misunderstandings about the incompatibility of communism and nationalism, and shows how communist parties throughout Europe consistently made appeals to popular nationalism. This book was published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Reappraising Communism and NationalismMartin Mevius 2. The First Great Patriotic War: Spanish Communists and Nationalism! 1936-1939Xose-Manoel Nunez and Jose M. Faraldo 3. The National Discourse of the Bulgarian Communist Party on National Anniversaries and Commemorations (1944-1948)Yannis Sygkelos 4. Nation and Empire: Dilemmas of Legitimacy during Stalinism in Poland (1941-1956)Jan C. Behrends 5. Nationalism as a Heavy Mortgage: SED Cadres Actions between Demand and RealityJan Kiepe 6. The Role of Portugal on the Stage of Imperialism: Communism! Nationalism and Colonialism (1930-1960)Jose Neves 7. East German Music and the Problem of National IdentityLaura Silverberg 8. Building the Nation! Instrumentalizing Nationalism: Revisiting Romanian National-Communism! 1956-1989Dragos Petrescu

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• Authors: Collectif, Martin Mevius, Martin (University of Amsterdam Mevius, Mevius Martin
• Assisted by: Martin Mevius (Editor), Martin (University of Amsterdam Mevius (Editor), Mevius Martin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2010
• EAN: 9780415587129
• ISBN: 978-0-415-58712-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities; Association for the Study of Nationalities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Europe, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism