Nation in Formation:
Inclusion and Exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe

Preface

Introduction
1. Inclusion and exclusion in central and eastern Europe
(by Christopher J. Gerry)

PART I: Making history: where ideology meets identity
Introduction

2. The commemorated and the excluded: the reshaped pantheons in eastern Europe, 1945 1956
(by Nikolai Vukov)
3. Ten years later: defining and redefining the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
(by Deanna Gayle Wooley)
4. Skeletons in the national closet: sexuality, history and belonging in post-socialist Hungary
(by Hadley Z. Renkin)

PART II: Nationalism in multiethnic Russia: rhetoric and reality
Introduction

5. A bid for autonomy: the implementation of ethnonationalism in Tatarstan and Chechnya
(by Alisa Voznaya)
6. Metaphorical politics: is Russia 'western' or not in the UK, US and German press coverage of Russian-Chechen conflict?
(by Felicitas Macgilchrist)

PART III: Memory, exile and trauma through literature
Introduction

7. The aesthetics of documentary war reportage: Joe Sacco's Safe Area Goražde
(by Dragana Obradović)
8. 'They are us': death, memory and the inclusion of the outsider in contemporary Macedonian short prose
(by Sonja Koroliov)
9. In and out: Andrei Codrescu or the journey of a Romanian exile
(by Ioana Luca)

PART IV: Constructing 'belonging'
Introduction

10. The concept of turbofolk in Croatia: inclusion/exclusion in the construction of national musical identity
(by Catherine Baker)
11. Exploring the space of identification: a tricolour story from the city of Cluj-Napoca
(by Raluca Soreanu)

PART V: Gender: from the socialist mother to the new gender roles
Introduction

12. Abortion during communist Romania: from its official history and its memory
(by Lorena Anton)
13. Transformation of the parental leave in the Czech Republic: careless mothers and heroes?
(by Klára Janoušková)
14. Report from the kitchen sink: the supra and the seeds of Georgian feminism
(by Lauren Ninoshvili)

Conclusion
15. Nation formation in central and eastern Europe
(by Catherine Baker, Christopher J. Gerry, Barbara Madaj, Liz Mellish and Jana Nahodilová)

Notes on Contributors

Index

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