Live Breaking News & Updates on Blair New Left Review January February

Nationalist dreams and nightmares
Mike Macnair reviews Workers and nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918 by JS Beneš and The Fiume crisis: life in the wake of the Habsburg empire by DK Reill
Both these books are about nationalism and the break-up of a larger multinational state regime. Reviewing Jakub Beneš’s book, published in 2017, is perhaps rather belated, but it provides fundamental background to that of Dominique Kirchner Reill: Beneš’s book is about the growth of nationalism in the late 19th-early 20th century workers’ movement in Austria-Hungary; Reill’s is a microcosm-study of the disastrous consequences of the implementation of nationalist programmes. ....

New York , United States , Slovak Republic , United Kingdom , Hungary General , Czech Republic , Croatia General , Czech Republic General , Ben Lewis , Franz Joseph , E Haberkern Karl Marx , Karl Kautsky , Dominique Kirchner Reill , Woodrow Wilson , Robert Anton Wilson Illuminatus , Hans Mommsen , Victor Adler , Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei , Louis Bonaparte , Warren Harding , Mike Macnair , Robert Shea , Tom Nairn , Mussolini Fascisti , Calvin Coolidge , Pan Germanism Berkeley ,