A history of modern political thought in East Central Europe

• Introduction
• p. 1

• Part I
• The Discovery of Modernity: Enlightened Statecraft, Discourses of Reform, and Civilizational Narratives
• p. 15

• 1
• The Politics of Improvement: European Models and Local Traditions
• p. 25

• 1.1
• Forging a new "reason of state"
• p. 25

• 1.2
• Legitimizing and reforming the estate system
• p. 43

• 1.3
• Patriotic allegiance and national mobilization
• p. 56

• 2
• National Projects and Civilizational Hierarchies
• p. 67

• 2.1
• Expansion of the "public sphere"
• p. 67

• 2.2
• Polishing the language: The emergence of vernacularism and its political subtext
• p. 78

• 2.3
• Ancient glory and stadial development: Enlightenment narratives of the past
• p. 91

• 2.4
• The rising interest in archaism and the problem of the "internal other"
• p. 105

• 3
• The Repercussions of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars
• p. 116

• 3.1
• Fascination and abhorrence
• p. 116

• 3.2
• The "Historical Sublime" knocking at the back door: Napoleon and East Central Europe
• p. 126

• 3.3
• After 1815: Legitimism and the harbingers of Romantic Nationalism
• p. 132

• Part II
• Spiritualizing Modernity: The Romantic Framework of Political Ideas
• p. 137

• 4
• "Playing the Piano that does not yet have Strings"? The Cultural-Political Programs of the "National Revivals"
• p. 143

• 4.1
• The long life of Enlightenment ideas
• p. 143

• 4.2
• The quest for emancipation
• p. 152

• 4.3
• "Not dead, but sleepeth": Discourses of national awakening
• p. 168

• 4.4
• Ruins and resurrections: The search for suitable ancestors
• p. 181

• 4.5
• Between national and supranational loyalties
• p. 191

• 4.6
• From "Missionism" to Messianism
• p. 203

• 5
• Political Visions of the Vormärz
• p. 214

• 5.1
• The emergence of the liberal nationalist project
• p. 214

• 5.2
• Moderates and radicals in the reform movement
• p. 220

• 5.3
• Critiques of national awakening
• p. 228

• 6
• Brotherhood and Disappointment: 1848 and its Aftermath
• p. 236

• 6.1
• Visions of revolutionary transformation
• p. 236

• 6.2
• The "social issue" during the revolutions
• p. 246

• 6.3
• The clash of national aspirations
• p. 254

• 6.4
• Ideologists of the Counter-Revolution: Forward to the Past?
• p. 265

• 6.5
• The aftermath of the Revolution: Self-criticism and anti-absolutism
• p. 269

• Part III
• Institutionalizing Modernity: Conceptions of State-Building and Nation-Building in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
• p. 277

• 7
• The Interplay of National and Imperial Principles of Organization
• p. 281

• 7.1
• Solving the riddle of the "Eastern Question"
• p. 281

• 7.2
• "With you, Our Most Gracious Monarch, we stay and wish to stay": Ideologies of Compromise, Dualism, and Trialism
• p. 291

• 7.3
• The rise of pan-national ideologies
• p. 309

• 8
• The Political Implications of Positivism
• p. 318

• 8.1
• The "critical turns": Challenging the Romantic constructions
• p. 318

• 8.2
• Positivist historical narratives
• p. 328

• 8.3
• Studying the nation
• p. 339

• 8.4
• Overcoming backwardness: The discourses of "national economy"
• p. 346

• 9
• The Rise and Fall of "National Liberalism" after 1848
• p. 356

• 9.1
• The paradigm shift of the liberal doctrine
• p. 356

• 9.2
• Liberalism and the "Church Question"
• p. 368

• 9.3
• The anti-liberal left
• p. 376

• 9.4
• The merger of ethnicism and conservatism: The emergence of political anti-Semitism
• p. 382

• Part IV
• Taming Modernity: The Fin De Siècle and the Rise of Mass Politics
• p. 391

• 10
• Liberals, Conservatives, and Mass Politics
• p. 395

• 10.1
• Responses to "politics in a new key"
• p. 395

• 10.2
• The limits of liberalism
• p. 401

• 10.3
• The new conservatives: Attempts at mobilization
• p. 408

• 10.4
• Fin-de-siècle religion and politics: Between modernism and neo-traditionalism
• p. 414

• 10.5
• The rise of integral nationalism
• p. 425

• 11
• The Left and the Ambiguity of the Marxist Package
• p. 431

• 11.1
• Civic radicalism: Intellectuals in search of a new identity
• p. 431

• 11.2
• Socialism and underdevelopment
• p. 446

• 11.3
• Agrarian populism: An East Central European local tradition?
• p. 469

• 11.4
• Anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists: Contesting evolutionary socialism
• p. 484

• 12
• Coping with Diversity
• p. 495

• 12.1
• Multiethnicity as a political issue
• p. 495

• 12.2
• Federalism as a solution to the nationality question
• p. 512

• 12.3
• Supranational theories and transnational movements
• p. 529

• 12.4
• The "Jewish Question": The entanglement of assimilation, anti-Semitism, and Zionism
• p. 544

• 13
• The Faces of Modernity
• p. 564

• 13.1
• The modernization of historiography and the sociological gaze
• p. 564

• 13.2
• Individualism, decadence, and collective regeneration
• p. 581

• 13.3
• The "Women's Question" and feminism
• p. 593

• 14
• The Great War
• p. 609

• 14.1
• War aims and visions of the future
• p. 609

• 14.2
• Projects of regional reorganization
• p. 624

• 14.3
• National mobilization and social disintegration
• p. 631

• Select Bibliography
• p. 641

• Index
• p. 675