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With Their Backs to the Mountains, A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns, Paul Robert Magocsi

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

no index present

non fiction

With Their Backs to the Mountains

electronic resource

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929239528

Paul Robert Magocsi

CEU Press - Political Science eBooks

A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns

"This is a history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus', located in the heart of central Europe. At the present, when it is fashionable to speak of nationalities as 'imagined communities' or as transnational constructs 'created' by intellectualselites who may live in the historic 'national' homeland or in the diaspora, Carpatho-Rusyns provide an ideal example of a people made--or some would say still being made--before our very eyes. The book traces the evolution of Carpathian Rus' from earliest pre-historic times to the present and the complex manner in which a distinct Carpatho-Rusyn people, since the mid-nineteenth century, came into being, disappeared, and then re-appeared in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of Communist rule in central and eastern Europe. The book, while based on the author's four decades of erudition on the subject, eschews scholarly jargon and is written in an accessible reader-friendly style"--Provided by publisher.--, Provided by publisher

Carpatho-Rusyns and the land of Carpathian Rus' -- Carpathian Rus' in prehistoric times -- The Slavs and their arrival in the Carpathians -- State formation in central Europe -- Carpathian Rus' until the early 16th century -- The Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and Carpathian Rus' -- The Habsburg restoration in Carpathian Rus' -- Habsburg reforms and their impact on Carpatho-Rusyns -- The Revolution of 1848 and the Carpatho-Rusyn national awakening -- Carpathian Rus' in Austria-Hungary, 1868-1914 -- Carpatho-Rusyn diasporas before World War I -- Carpathian Rus' during World War I, 1914-1918 -- The end of the old and the birth of a new order, 1918-1919 -- Subcarpathian Rus' in interwar Czechoslovakia, 1919-1938 -- The Prešov Region in interwar Slovakia, 1919-1938 -- The Lemko Region in interwar Poland, 1919-1939 -- Carpatho-Rusyn diasporas during the interwar years, 1919-1938 -- Other peoples in Subcarpathian Rus' -- Autonomous Subcarpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Ukraine, 1938-1939 -- Carpathian Rus' during World War II, 1939-1944 -- Carpathian Rus' in transition, 1944-1945 -- Subcarpathian Rus'/Transcarpathia in the Soviet Union, 1945-1991 -- The Prešov Region in postwar and Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-1989 -- The Lemko Region and Lemko Rusyns in Communist Poland, 1945-1989 -- Carpatho-Rusyn diasporas old and new, 1945-1989 -- The Revolutions of 1989 -- Post-Communist Transcarpathia-Ukraine -- The post-Communist Prešov Region and the Lemko Region-Slovakia and Poland -- Other Carpatho-Rusyn communities in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989 -- Carpathian Rus' : real or imagined?