Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe
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Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe

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Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe

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The papers that comprise this collection examine the role of competing European, national, ethnic and regional identities over the introduction of new regional levels of government in the former Soviet and now Central and Eastern European states.

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MAP 1
STATES AND REGIONS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
MAP 2
TWO EUROREGIONS

Acronyms and Abbreviations

 
ARC Autonomous Republic of Crimea
AWS Electoral Action Solidarity
CER Carpathian EuroRegion
CHCA Carpathian Hungarian Cultural Association
CSCE Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
CPU Communist Party of Ukraine
DPL Democratic Party of Labour (Estonia)
DS Slovak Democratic Party
ESSR Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
FIDESZ Federation of Young Democrats
FIDESZ-MPP FIDESZ-Hungarian Civic Party
FKGP Independent Smallholders’ Party
GOP Upper Silesian Industrial District
HZDS Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
IRBR Interregional Block for Reforms
KDH Slovak Christian Democratic Party
KDNP Christian Democratic People’s Party
MDG Interregional Group of Deputies
MDF Hungarian Democratic Forum
MSZP Hungarian Socialist Party
NES Narva Estonian Society
NKVD People’s Commissariat for Internal Security (later the KGB)
PDSR Party of Social Democracy of Romania
PKWN Committee of National Liberation
PRM Greater Romania Party
RMDSZ Democratic Union of Romanian Magyars
RSFSR Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
SDL Slovak Democratic Left Party
SLD Democratic Left Alliance
SMK Hungarian Coalition Party
SNS Slovak National Party
SOP Civic Understanding Party
SZDSZ Alliance of Free Democrats
TUC Trade Union Centre
UkrSSR Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
UMO Union of Cities and Towns in Slovakia
UNR Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917–20)
UPA Ukrainian Insurgent Army
URCN Union of Russian Citizens of Narva
UW Freedom Union
VUC [a regional level of territorial self-government in Slovakia]
ZMOS Association of Towns and Villages of Slovakia
ZRS Association of Workers in Slovakia

Introduction:
Region, State and Identityin
Central and Eastern Europe

JUDY BATT

..[N]ations living in this region lacked what was naturally, clearly precisely and concretely present in the everyday life and community consciousness of nations in Western Europe: A reality in their own national and state framework, a capital city, a harmony between economy and politics, a unified social elite etc … In Eastern Europe … a national framework was something that had to be ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. THE CASS SERIES IN REGIONAL AND FEDERAL STUDIES
  4. Full Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Map 1: States and Regions in Central and Eastern Europe
  9. Map 2: Two Euroregions
  10. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  11. Introduction: Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe
  12. Hungary: Patterns of Political Conflict over Territorial-Administrative Reform
  13. Slovakia: An Anthropological Perspective on Identity and Regional Reform
  14. Catching up with 'Europe'? Constitutional Debates on the Territorial-Administrative Model in Independent Ukraine
  15. Narva Region within the Estonian Republic: From Autonomism to Accommodation?
  16. Upper Silesia: Rebirth of a Regional Identity in Poland
  17. Poland's Eastern Borderlands: Political Transition and the 'Ethnic Question'
  18. Transcarpathia: Peripheral Region at the 'Centre of Europe'
  19. Reinventing Banat
  20. Conclusion: Identities, Regions and Europe
  21. Abstracts
  22. Notes on Contributors
  23. Index