Luka Ivan Jukic Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Historian, journalist, & geopolitical risk analyst. Focused on Central and Eastern Europe.

Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War
John Deak
@llisjak Probably, I followed the footnote into two different books before giving up. This is from John Deak’s Forging a Multinational State.
Hardcover, 2015
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Second-Hand Time
Svetlana Alexievich
Topical section from Svetlana Alexievich’s Second Hand Time: “The Russia kitchen… that’s where perestroika really took place.” https://t.co/5yeoRUigmE
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The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families After World War II
Tara Zahra
From Tara Zahra’s “The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II”
Paperback, 2015
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The Joke
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera’s great novel The Joke is exactly about this initial enthusiasm for Stalinism giving way to disappointment after the reality of the system became clear, coupled with a cynical view of later “reformed” communists (though Kundera was one). https://t.co/rAFlY688fy
Paperback, 1994
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The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe
T. Kamusella
From Tomasz Kamusella’s ‘The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe’
Paperback, 2012
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Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
Dominic Lieven
Fascinating paragraph on how Japan adopted the European conception of Empire after the Meiji Restoration, which never shed the its original martial connotations (in Rome ‘emperor’ originally meant a successful general). From Dominic Lieven’s “Empire”. https://t.co/MZXn4U6cyS
Paperback, 2002
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