Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union : A Basic Contradiction?,9780312217990

Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union : A Basic Contradiction?

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ISBN13: 9780312217990
ISBN10: 0312217994
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-03-01
Publisher(s): Palgrave-Macmillan
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Summary

This book analyzes and explains how Communist theorists and practitioners tried to cope with nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Walter Kemp looks at the writings of Marx and Engels in the 1840s to the collapse of the Communist bloc and the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991. He identifies a cyclical pattern of behavior that characterized Communism's attempts to come to terms with nationalism: a pattern which recurred until the 1980s at which time the ideological and political discrepancies created by the incongruence of nationalism and communism had become so antagonistic as to act as a major catalyst in the collapse of the Communist system.

Author Biography

Walter A. Kemp is Public Information Officer for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Dr Kemp has a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi(4)
Introduction xv
1 Defining the Terms
1(21)
Introduction
1(1)
The Terms
2(1)
Communism
2(4)
Nation, State and Patriotism
6(1)
Nationalism
7(2)
National Consciousness
9(7)
Political Culture
16(1)
The Political Element
17(1)
Rival Salvation Movements
18(2)
The Uniqueness of Enigmatic Nationalism
20(2)
2 Reconciling the Basic Contradiction
22(35)
Marx and Engels
22(10)
The Nationalization of Socialism
32(2)
Bauer and Renner
34(6)
The Czech Social Democrats and the Collapse of the Gesamtpartei
40(3)
Luxemburg and Kautsky
43(2)
Lenin
45(9)
Stalin
54(3)
3 From Socialist Theory to Communist Realpolitik
57(37)
Short-Term Concessions with Long-Term Repercussions
58(3)
The Federalist Concession
61(2)
The Right to Self-Determination
63(2)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice Dilemma
65(1)
Consolidating the Revolutionary Gains
66(3)
Federalist in Form, Centrist in Content
69(2)
Sham Federalism
71(3)
A Superstructure with Weak Foundations
74(4)
Korenizatsiia
78(2)
National in Form, Socialist in Content
80(3)
A Cyclical Undoing
83(3)
Socialist Patriotism and the Historyless Soviets
86(1)
Socialism in One Country
87(1)
The Growth of the State
88(2)
The 1936 Constitution
90(1)
The Great Patriotic War
91(1)
The Paradox of Coercion and the Example of National Communism
92(2)
4 Heirs to the Great Traditions of the Nation
94(33)
The Ideological Dilemma
95(2)
The Post-War Mood
97(5)
The Problem with Slovakia
102(2)
Spin-doctor Nejedly
104(3)
Jan Hus-A Good Communist
107(1)
Other Selective Memories
108(2)
Tightening the Screws
110(2)
More Nationalism, Not Less
112(1)
Sokol -- Clipping the Falcon's Wings
113(3)
Masaryk
116(1)
Keeping the National Forms
117(2)
Postage Stamps
119(1)
Somewhere Between Cosmopolitanism and `Bourgeois-Nationalism'
119(2)
Antithesis of the Political Culture
121(2)
The Dilemma of Socialist Patriotism
123(4)
5 Socialist Patriotism or National Communism?
127(46)
The Theoretical Problem
128(2)
Revisionism
130(4)
A New Course?
134(5)
Djilas and Nagy on Nationalism
139(3)
Poland: Elites and Legitimacy
142(1)
Legitimacy
143(1)
The Polish Example
144(2)
Hungary: The Importance of Symbols
146(1)
Khruschev: Another Sorcerer's Apprentice
147(2)
Romania and Economic Nationalism
149(5)
Czechoslovakia: The Limits of Nationalism and Internationalism
154(4)
Lithuania and the Inappropriateness of the Soviet Model
158(1)
Anatanas Snieckus and the Lithuanian Communist Party
159(3)
Native Communists: The Role of the New Elite
162(2)
Decentralization and Protectionism
164(2)
Snieckus as a National Communist?
166(5)
Conclusion
171(2)
6 The Contradiction Apparent
173(35)
Captive Minds
174(1)
Poland: National Symbolism in a Workers' Revolution
175(4)
Attempts at Strengthening Nationalist Credentials
179(3)
Yugoslavia
182(5)
Brezhnev
187(3)
Andropov
190(2)
Gorbachev and the Winds of Change
192(3)
The Buckets Overflow
195(2)
Explosion of the Dialectic
197(4)
Yeltsin and Expressions of `Sovereignty'
201(1)
Collapse of the Union
202(4)
Conclusion
206(2)
7 Nationalism, Communism and the Politics of Identity
208(13)
Short-Sighted Post-Communist Hubris
208(1)
An Explosion of Nationalism
208(3)
Capitalism, Globalism and the Persistence of Nationalism
211(2)
A Crisis of Identity
213(1)
Living with Nationalism
214(3)
Implications for the Study of International Relations
217(2)
Conclusion
219(2)
Notes 221(39)
Bibliography 260(19)
Index 279

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