ANT-3451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Vladimir Lenin
Document Summary
The idea of europe and the idea of nation: from christians to europeans. Greek/roman foundations, devolution of others, industrialization and national identity: folk traditions emerge as nation identity, old and new nations. France and england subject of crown rst, took longer to form national identity, violent. Recent states formed national identity after independence, shorter time, violent. Nationalism and authoritarian regimes in twentieth-century europe: the. Socialist multiethnic experiments: vladimir lenin theory v practice. Promoted ethnic plurality if republics join state. Then terminated secession, forced assimilation of language, education & economics. Yugoslavia and the resurgence of ethnicity: o cial recognition of multiple ethnic groups prevented one group dominating, national identity of uni cation against soviets coexisted with ethnic identity, nationalism and scienti c racism were condemned after wwii. Bretons, scottish, welsh: economic impoverishment of periphery in education, folk traditions, festivals. : despite the predictions of social scientists, religious identi cations continue to have signi cance to many europeans coincide with ethnic identities.
