Timothy Snyder opens 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 the twentieth 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, a century
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
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. This was the
first major monograph in English devoted to Kelles-Krauz, and it
includes maps and personal photographs of Kelles-Krauz, his
colleagues, and his family.
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ISBN
9780190846107
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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