Nationalism, Marxism, and modern Central Europe : a biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872-1905)

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Nationalism, Marxism, and modern Central Europe : a biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872-1905)

Timothy Snyder

(Harvard papers in Ukrainian studies)

Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, c1997

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-321)

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Timothy Snyder presents the life and thought of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish intellectual at the begninning of the 20th 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, 90 years later, we see that his theories anticipated late-20th-century thought 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 and Ukranian national rights as being equivalent to, for example, Polish national rights, and he correctly foresaw the struggle for national sovereignty as being central to future events in Europe.

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