National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe
Edited by Ivo Banac and Katherine Verdery
255 p., 1995 (ISBN: 0-936586-13-3) (Yale Russian and East European Publications, No. 13), cloth:> $24.95.


Contents

Katherine Verdery: Introduction;
Jerzy Jedlicki: Polish Concepts of Native Culture;
Andrzej Chojnowski: Polish National Character, the Sanacja Camp, and the National Democracy;
Andrew Lass: "What are we like?" National Character and the Aesthetics of Distinction in Interwar Czechoslovakia;
Tamas Hofer: The "Hungarian Soul" and the "Historic Layers of National Heritage": Conceptualizations of Hungarian Folk Culture, 1880-1944;
Zsigmond Pal Pach: Business Mentality and the Hungarian National Character;
Katherine Verdery: National Ideology and National Character in Interwar Romania;
Keith Hitchins: Orthodoxism: Polemics over Ethnicity and Religion in Interwar Romania;
Marian Papahagi: The "National Essence" in Interwar Romanian Literary Life;
Ivo Banac: Zarathustra in Red Croatia: Milan Shufflay and his Theory of Nationhood;
Alexander Kiossev: The Debate about the Problematic Bulgarian: A View on the Pluralism of the National Ideologies in Bulgaria in the Interwar Period;
Andrew Rossos: Macedonianism and Macedonian Nationalism on the Left;
Contributors.