| No 18
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Ethnicity and Faith in Eastern Europe |
| Institution |
Cambridge University: CB2 1TN England |
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Publication (Journal) |
Daedalus 119 no. 1 (winter 1990): 279-94 |
| Published in |
USA, 1990 |
| Language |
English |
| Abstract |
The changing role of ethnicity and religion in Eastern Europe between 1815 and 1989 is traced. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the whole of Eastern Europe was divided between three empires, based on religion and dynasty and with regard to ethnicity. This stage was followed by a period of nationalist irredentism, which finally triumphed in 1918. Stage three was characterized by small national states, which, however, were haunted by minority and ethnic conflict as much as were their imperial predecessors. Stage four was a period of brutal solutions to ethnic problems via genocide and mass transplantation. A future stage five is predicted in which ethnic conflicts will be diminished by general affluence via, perhaps, a federal solution. |
| Availability |
Library of the Hungarian Academiy of Sciences, Budapest |
| Discipline(s) |
political history
, social history
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