Table of Contents

Annotations 553

Introduction

Nationalism, nation-building, and the decline of empires 554

Riccardo Mario Cucciolla

The Habsburg dilemmas

Prisons of peoples? Empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848–1925 559

Pieter M. Judson

Colonial lessons to learn from Habsburg: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878–1918 571

Clemens Ruthner

Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938) 584

Marco Bresciani

Post-imperial dimensions of the Turkish nation

From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey 597

Salim Çevik

Literature and the legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s post-imperial condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 608

Johanna Chovanec

Illiberal polity as the retribution of post-imperial nation-building: The case of Turkey 629

Cengiz Aktar

The Soviet legacy

Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism: Intellectual and political roots, implementation, and post-1991 legacies 638

Andrea Graziosi 

Borders, states, and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: The moral hazard of great-power encroachments 651

Mark Kramer

The third Ukraine: A case of civic nationalism 674

Yaroslav Hrytsak

Forced marriages and unintentional divorces: The national attitudes in Armenia and Uzbekistan towards the ‘Russian World’ 688

Riccardo Mario Cucciolla 

Conclusion

The challenges of pseudo-nationalism and the lessons from intellectual history 715

Mark Lilla