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Book SynopsisTrade Review"If you want to understand why illiberal democracy is not the newest of ideas, or how a raft of leaders has emerged in Hungary, Poland and the Balkans who seem to echo a dark time in our continent’s history, this compelling book, covering the last 200 years in the region, is a good place to start. . . . Few recent works have made the past so relevant to our times."
---Victor Sebestyen, Sunday Times"Connelly captures superbly the divergences and rivalries within his basket of nationalities: how little coordination took place between them; how little they recognised what he calls their ‘common predicament.’"
---R.J.W. Evans, Literary Review"A rich narrative history of Central and Eastern Europe."
---Damir Marusic, Washington Examiner"[
From Peoples into Nations] will doubtless emerge as a landmark contribution to the study of nationalism as a political force in Eastern Europe." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *
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The author has provided his reader not only with a detailed ‘crash course’ on how the people of Eastern Europe formed
nations there, but also with a ‘road map’ for further intellectual immersion. John Connelly’s monograph, therefore, serves as a valuable contribution to the broader understanding of Eastern Europe and an introductory textbook on a geographic space where more good and bad happened during the twentieth century than anywhere else.
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---Paweł Markiewicz, Slavonic and East European Review"A magisterial account about Eastern Europe that forcefully reminds us of the enduring and adaptable power of national passions in modern history. . . .Connelly is undeniably one of the best experts in regional history of central and eastern Europe, but most of all, he is a comparative historian of nation-states. . . .[B]efore any vast global comparisons can be made, we need rich, rigorous, and authoritative regional histories.
From Peoples into Nations delivers just that."
---Małgorzata Mazurek, H-Diplo"N/A"
---Fabian Baumann, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
