{"product_id":"nationalism-from-below-in-the-east-european-and-soviet-borderlands-popular-responses-to-nation-building-1900-1940-9781350443754","title":"Nationalism from Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands: Popular Responses to Nation-Building, 1900-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book features contributions that examine the responses of local populations to nationalizing and state-building projects in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on bottom-up, peripheral, and marginal reactions to top-down nation-building efforts, the volume covers border regions of Romania, Austria-Hungary (before 1918), Poland, Finland, the Russian Empire, and the USSR between 1900 and 1940. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHistoriography continues to privilege top-down approaches, focused on elites, institutions, and official policies. Despite previous notable works on this topic, in-depth studies of bottom-up perspectives on these regions remain rare. This volume seeks to redress the imbalance by emphasizing the perceptions, discourses, and everyday practices of ordinary people confronted with (often repressive) nation- and state-building agendas. It also addresses multiple levels of social interaction (combining perspectives from above, from below, and from the middle), involving several categories of actors and navigating through different scales of analysis. Individual and comparative case studies explore the social and political peculiarities of various local communities, particularly their evolving forms of national identification across neighboring regions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume contributes to both nationalism studies, by critically engaging with the concepts of everyday ethnicity and \"national indifference,\" and borderland studies, through a trans-sectional approach focusing on the agency of various marginalized communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePetru Negura\u003c\/b\u003e is a researcher at Moldova State University and a lecturer at the University of Regensburg. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNi héros, ni traîtres: Les écrivains moldaves face au pouvoir soviétique sous Staline\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrei \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCusco\u003c\/b\u003e is a researcher at the A. D. Xenopol Institute of History of the Romanian Academy in Iasi, Romania. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Contested Borderland: Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSvetlana Suveica\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior research associate at the Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg and an associated Professor at the University of Regensburg. Her latest monograph, \u003ci\u003ePost-imperial Encounters. Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere, 1917-1922 \u003c\/i\u003e(2022) won the Book Prize of the Society for Romanian Studies.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52038905823506,"sku":"9781350443754","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5016bb2-18f9-4542-9a7c-8ecea05767e8.jpg?v=1771340573","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nationalism-from-below-in-the-east-european-and-soviet-borderlands-popular-responses-to-nation-building-1900-1940-9781350443754","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}