Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924Nick Baron, Peter Gatrell This new volume, by a team of international scholars, explores aspects of population displacement and statehood at a crucial juncture in modern European history, when the entire continent took on the aspect of a 'laboratory atop a mass graveyard' (Tomas Masaryk). The topic of state-building has acquired a new actuality in recent years, following the collapse of the USSR and the 'Soviet bloc' and in view of the complex, often violent, territorial and ethnic conflicts which have ensued. Many of the current dilemmas and tragedies of the region have their origins in the aftermath of World War I, when newly independent nation states, struggling to emerge from the rubble of the former Russian empire, first sought to define themselves in terms of population, territory and citizenship. 'Homelands' examines the interactions of forced migration, state construction and myriad emerging forms of social identity. It opens up a fresh perspective on twentieth-century history and throws new light on present-day political, humanitarian and scholarly issues of crucial concern to political scientists, sociologists, geographers, refugee welfare workers, policymakers and others. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Latvian Refugees and the Latvian Nation State during and after | 35 |
Belarusian Refugees | 53 |
The Return of World War | 74 |
Population Displacement and Citizenship in Poland 191824 | 98 |
The Repatriation of Polish Citizens from Soviet Ukraine | 119 |
Siberian and Manchurian Returnees in Independent | 138 |
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Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924 Nick Baron No preview available - 2004 |