National Identity and Foreign Policy
In: Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies v.103
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: statement of arguments -- 1 National identity and foreign policy: a dialectical relationship -- Typologies of nationalism -- 2 Polish identity 1795-1944: from romanticism to positivism to ethnonationalism -- The fall of positivism and the rise of ethnonationalism -- The search for a foreign policy paradigm on the eve of independence -- National identity of independent Poland -- Interwar identity and foreign policy -- The lessons of the failed 1944 uprising -- 3 Poland after World War II: native conservatism and the return to Central Europe -- The af termath of World War II -- The Stalinization of Poland: the end of symbiosis -- A precarious equilibrium: 1956-1968 -- The rise of the unified opposition -- Paradigms of a sovereign Poland -- 4 Polish foreign policy in perspective: a new encounter with positivism -- Poland's German policy -- Eastern policy revisited -- Poland and Russia -- Relations with Ukraine and Belarus -- Relations with Lithuania -- Place and reorientation -- 5 Russia's national identity and the accursed question: a strong state and a weak society -- The Russian Orthodox Church -- The annexation of Ukraine and the institutionalization of the empire -- Westernizers and Slavophiles and the notion of empire -- The emergence of national identity in Russia -- 6 Russian identity and the Soviet period -- The October Revolution and Russia's national identity -- The rehabilitation of the Russian imperial idea: the theory of a lesser evil -- Post-Stalinist USSR and the re-emergence of the two paradigms -- Brezhnev: regime decay and co-optation of nationalism -- National identity and Russian dissent: the rebirth of dichotomy -- The rise of nationalist opposition and its co-optation -- The rise of Gorbachev and the ascent of liberalism