Modernity and Nation in Eastern Europe and Central Eurasia

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This study aimed to examine 1) how nationalism and national consciousness emerged in the modern history of Eastern Europe and Central Eurasia in new theoretical perspectives on nationalism using historical materials which became available to historians under the new political conditions of the Post-Communist Eurasian countries, and 2) how local historians are (re)writing their national history under new conditions of multiple transformations in the Post-Communist era.More than sixty case studies on these topics were reported in six workshops and an international symposium which were held by this project, and the most part of them have been published in five volumes of proceedings. Many of these case studies are successful to describe the emerging process of nationalism and national consciousness in this area from the constructivist viewpoint as well as pronounced primordialistic tendency in the historiography of the new republics which were established after the collapse of the three federations of this area.