New book on Kelles-Krauz

[Robert De Lossa]

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Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe:
A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872­1905)
Timothy D. Snyder

Timothy Snyder forges a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism
and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of
Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of
this century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna,
Kelles-Krauz influenced or infuriated most of the leaders of the various
socialist movements of Central Europe and France. His central ideas
ultimately were not accepted by the socialist mainstream at the time of his
death. However, ninety years later, we see that they anticipated  late
twentieth-century understanding on the importance of nationalism as a
social force and the parameters of socialism in political theory and
praxis. Kelles-Krauz was one of the only theoreticians of his age to
advocate Ukrainian and Jewish national rights as being equivalent to, for
example, Polish national rights and he correctly saw the struggle for
national sovereignty as being central to future events in Europe.
Specialists will welcome this first major monograph in English devoted to
Kelles-Krauz. Students will also find helpful biographical guides, maps,
and personal photographs of Kelles-Krauz, his colleagues, and his family.

1997. 351  pp. 3 maps. 7 b&w photographs. ISBN 0-916458-84-9. $18.00.
Softcover.
Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies.


Available from:
Harvard University Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138;
1-800-448-2242; fax. 1-800-962-4983
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