Of the Making of Nationalities There Is No End: Carpatho-Rusyns in Europe and North America

by Magocsi, Paul Robert

• ISBN13: 9780880334389
• ISBN10: 088033438X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Since the Revolution of 1989 and the fall of Communism, many new nation-states have come into existence and several previously repressed nationalities have been able to function once again as legally recognized entities. One of those revived nationalities is the Carpatho-Rusyns, who since 1989 have been recognized officially in five countries (Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Yugoslavia) where they live. Only Ukraine, where about three-quarters of all Rusyns live, does not accept that they form a distinct nationality.The unique value of this collection of 42 essays is that it reveals not only the theoretical-historical basis for a current national movement in a strategically located territory within the former Soviet empire (along the borders of Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary), it also provides texts that reveal in practical and concrete ways how the movement has been carried out.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	xiii
Christopher M. Hann
Part I Carpatho-Rusyns in Europe
The Carpatho-Rusyns (1997)	3	(23)
Mapping Stateless Peoples: The East Slavs of the Carpathians (1998)	26	(34)
Religion and Identity in the Carpathians: Eastern Christians in Poland and Czechoslovakia (1988)	60	(26)
The Rusyn Language Question Revisited (1995)	86	(26)
Rusyn Organizations, Political Parties, and Interest Groups, 1848-1914 (1992/1998)	112	(12)
The Rusyn Decision to Unite with Czechoslovakia (1974)	124	(24)
Magyars and Carpatho-Rusyns in Czechoslovakia (1988)	148	(41)
The Nationalist Intelligentsia and the Peasantry in Twentieth-Century Subcarpathian Rus' (1975)	189	(31)
The Nationality Problem in Subcarpathian Rus', 1938-1939: A Reappraisal (1974)	220	(15)
Rusyns and the Slovak State (1979)	235	(7)
National Assimilation: The Case of the Rusyn-Ukrainians of Czechoslovakia (1974)	242	(48)
The Hungarians in Transcarpathia/Subcarpathian Rus' (1995)	290	(13)
The Lemko Rusyn Republic, 1918-1920, and Political Thought in Western Rus'-Ukraine (1989)	303	(13)
Nation-Building or Nation Destroying?: Lemkos, Poles, and Ukrainians in Contemporary Poland (1989)	316	(16)
The Birth of a New Nation or the Return of an Old Problem?: The Rusyns of East-Central Europe (1992)	332	(29)
A New Slavic Nationality?: The Rusyns of East-Central Europe (1995)	361	(18)
Part II Carpatho-Rusyns in North America
Carpatho-Rusyns in the United States (1995)	379	(15)
The Political Activity of Rusyn-American Immigrants in 1918 (1973)	394	(22)
The Carpatho-Rusyn Press in the United States (1986)	416	(14)
Rusyn-American Literature (1974)	430	(16)
Carpatho-Rusyns in Canada (1987/1997)	446	(21)
Made or Re-Made in America? Nationality and Identity Formation Among Carpatho-Rusyn Immigrants and Their Descendants (1990)	467