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Part 1 What is the nation? civil society, ethnicity and the state - athreefold relationship; citizenship, ethnicity and cultural reproduction;democracy, ethnicity and right-extremist movements; commemoration - whyremember? Part 2 Ethnicity and cultural reproduction: a taxonomy of myths andtheir functions; social processes without actors? conspiracy theories and thequest for enemies in central and eastern Europe; aspects of language andethnicity in central and eastern Europe; ethnic minorities in central andeastern Europe - analyses and prognoses. Part 3 The state, Communism andpost-Communism: why empires fail; cultural diversity and good governance -some general considerations; the Communist experience and nationhood; ananalysis of post-Communism; culture and identity in post-Communist Europe;the rise of anti-democratic movements in post-Communist societies;nationhood, Communism, and state legitimation; culling sacred cows? statefrontiers and stability. Part 4 Minorities: the problem of ethnic minoritiesin central and eastern Europe; nationalism and ethnic minorities inpost-Communist Europe; inter-ethnic relations in Transylvania. Part 5 Theethnic factor reconsidered: Englishness - citizenship, ethnicity and class;Yugoslavia - state construction and state failure; power, ethnicity andpolitics in Yugoslavia; Hungary and its neighbours -Hungary as a kin state.