Series: A Modern History of Politics and Violence

This book features contributions that examine the responses of local populations to nationalising and state-building projects in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on bottom-up, peripheral, and marginal reactions to top-down nation-building efforts, the volume covers border regions of Romania, Austria-Hungary (before 1918), Poland, Finland, the Russian Empire, and the USSR between 1900 and 1940. Historiography continues to...

The destruction of monuments during the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 shows how many nations are being forced to grapple with their national histories. It is clear that the things which make up our streets form a core part of our historical, political, and cultural identity. Here, Eloise Florence turns to Berlin and the deeply entrenched English-language narratives about...