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Focusing his \"conceptual explorations\" on three phenomena-revolutions, nations and nationalism, and empires-Motyl challenges the sloppy thinking that so often surrounds these three interrelated concepts, and moves our understanding of them-and their implications for both theory and practice-toward greater precision.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53213050241297,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53213050470673,"sku":"NGR9780231114318","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780231114318.jpg?v=1772752506"},{"product_id":"national-questions-theoretical-reflections-on-nations-and-nationalism-in-eastern-book-alexander-motyl-9783838216751","title":"National Questions: Theoretical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe","description":"Combining social science with the multi-disciplinarity of area studies, Alexander Motyl discusses in fifteen essays the malleability and modernity of national identity, the attractions and limits of social constructivist imaginings of nations, the impact of national discourses, binary morality, and historical narratives on interpretations of the Holocaust and the Holodomor, the relationship between liberalism, nationalism, and fascism, and the role of national identity and nationalism in Eastern Europe in general and the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Russia in particular. 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