![]() ![]() The book traces the emergence of modern states in Central and Eastern Europe, in particular, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus, which arose from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, once the largest state of early modern Europe (created in the Union of Lublin in the year 1569 which marks the beginning of the time period covered by the book). ![]() ![]() Weeks puts it even more simply as "What are nations and how do they arise?". The book is concerned with the emergence of those modern states through the troubled history of that region, which included wars and ethnic cleansing, and concludes that national reconciliation and good neighbourly relations are possible even after such difficult events.Īccording to Brian Porter, the key question considered by Snyder in this work is "When do nations arise, what brings ethnic cleansing, how can states reconcile?". It focuses on the last few hundred years of history of several Central and Eastern European countries in particular, states descended from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, once the largest state of early modern Europe: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus. ![]() The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 is a 2003 book by Timothy Snyder and published by the Yale University Press. ![]()
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