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Special Issue on Ukrainian StatehoodBringing the State Back In: Studying Ukrainian Statehood in the 20th CenturyMarkian Dobczansky and Simone Attilio Bellezza 335

Reconciling the Irreconcilable? Left-Wing Ukrainian Nationalism and the Soviet RegimeChristopher Gilley 341

What Was Soviet and Ukrainian About Soviet Ukrainian Culture? Mykola Kulish’s Myna Mazailo on the Soviet StageMayhill C. Fowler 355

Rehabilitating a Mythology: The Ukrainian SSR’s Foundational Myth After StalinMarkian Dobczansky 366

Making Soviet Ukraine Ukrainian: The Debate on Ukrainian Statehood in the Journal Suchasnist’ (1961–1971)Simone Attilio Bellezza 379

Political Affi nities and Maneuvering of Soviet Political Elites: Heorhii Shevel and Ukraine’s Ministry of Strange Affairs in the 1970sOlga Bertelsen 394

Articles

Identity, Contingency, and Interaction: Historical Research and Social Science Analysis of Nation-State ProliferationLynn M. Tesser 412

Trapped in the Past: Memories of Georgian Internally Displaced Persons on the Margins of SocietyMalkhaz Toria, Nino Pirtskhalava, Elene Kekelia, and Konstantine Ladaria 429

State, Nation, and the National Flag in Post-Soviet Lithuania: Legitimating Identities of the State in Institutional and Social DiscoursesEgle Kesylyte-Alliks 445

State Ownership and “State-Sharing”: The Role of Collective Identities and the Sociopolitical Cleavage between Ethnic Macedonians and Ethnic Albanians in the Republic of North MacedoniaArianna Maria Piacentini 461

The Dark Side of the Moon: Nationalism, Human Rights, and the Erased Residents of SloveniaBarbara Gornik 477

The Peculiarities of Traditional Marriage Rituals of the Dungan Diaspora: A Comparative-Historical AnalysisZulfi ya Imyarova 492

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NatioNalities PaPerseditor-in-chief

Harris MylonasGeorge Washington University, USA

managing editorDanielle Judith Price

book review editorRoland Spickermann - University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA

associate editorsŞener Aktürk - Koç University, Turkey

Zeynep Bulutgil - University College London, UKPaul Goode - University of Bath, UK

Aviel Roshwald - Georgetown University, USA Myra Waterbury - Ohio University, USA

editorial boardFiona B. Adamson - SOAS, University of London, UK; Hugh Agnew - George Washington University, USA; Dominique Arel - University of Ottawa, Canada; Monika Baar - University of Leiden, The Netherlands; Laia Balcells - Georgetown University, USA; Lowell Barrington - Marquette University, USA; Ceren Belge - Concordia University, Canada; Max Bergholz - Concordia University, Canada; Stefano Bianchini - Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy; Florian Bieber - University of Graz, Austria; Rogers Brubaker - University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Fotini Christia - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Bridget Coggins - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Karl Cordell - University of Plymouth, UK; David Crowe - Chapman University and Elon University, USA; Keith Darden - American University, USA; Bhavna Davé - SOAS, University of London, UK; Stephen Deets - Babson College, USA; Emily Greble - Vanderbilt University, USA; Alexandra Goujon - University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Henry Hale - George Washington University, USA; Erin Jenne - Central European University, Hungary; Natalie Koch - Syracuse University, USA; Maria Koinova - University of Warwick, UK; Dominika Koter - Colgate University, USA; Marlene Laruelle - George Washington University, USA; Siniša Malešević - University College, Dublin, Ireland; George Th. Mavrogordatos - University of Athens, Greece; Brendan O’Leary - University of Pennsylvania, USA; Olga Onuch - University of Manchester, UK; Srdja Pavlović - University of Alberta, Canada; Peter Rutland - Wesleyan University, USA; Michael Rywkin - The City College of CUNY, USA; Gwendolyn Sasse - University of Oxford, UK; Edward Schatz - University of Toronto, Canada; Oxana Shevel - Tufts University, USA; Regine Spector - UMass Amherst, USA; Djordje Stefanovic - Saint Mary’s University, Canada; David Szakonyi - George Washington University, USA; Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) - Virginia Tech, USA; Peter Vermeersch - University of Leuven, Belgium; Elpida Vogli - University of Thrace, Greece; Timothy William Waters - Indiana University, USA; Theodore R. Weeks - Southern Illinois University, USA; Susan L. Woodward - The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA; Stefan Wolff - University of Birmingham, UK

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NatioNalities papersthe Journal of Nationalism and ethnicityVolume 47 Number 3 May 2019

CoNteNts

special issue on Ukrainian statehood

Bringing the State Back In: Studying Ukrainian Statehood in the 20th CenturyMarkian Dobczansky and Simone Attilio Bellezza 335

Reconciling the Irreconcilable? Left-Wing Ukrainian Nationalism and the Soviet RegimeChristopher Gilley 341

What Was Soviet and Ukrainian About Soviet Ukrainian Culture? Mykola Kulish’s Myna Mazailo on the Soviet StageMayhill C. Fowler 355

Rehabilitating a Mythology: The Ukrainian SSR’s Foundational Myth After StalinMarkian Dobczansky 366

Making Soviet Ukraine Ukrainian: The Debate on Ukrainian Statehood in the Journal Suchasnist’ (1961–1971)Simone Attilio Bellezza 379

Political Affinities and Maneuvering of Soviet Political Elites: Heorhii Shevel and Ukraine’s Ministry of Strange Affairs in the 1970sOlga Bertelsen 394

articles

Identity, Contingency, and Interaction: Historical Research and Social Science Analysis of Nation-State ProliferationLynn M. Tesser 412

Trapped in the Past: Memories of Georgian Internally Displaced Persons on the Margins of SocietyMalkhaz Toria, Nino Pirtskhalava, Elene Kekelia, and Konstantine Ladaria 429

State, Nation, and the National Flag in Post-Soviet Lithuania: Legitimating Identities of the State in Institutional and Social DiscoursesEglė Kesylytė-Alliks 445

State Ownership and “State-Sharing”: The Role of Collective Identities and the Sociopolitical Cleavage between Ethnic Macedonians and Ethnic Albanians in the Republic of North MacedoniaArianna Maria Piacentini 461

The Dark Side of the Moon: Nationalism, Human Rights, and the Erased Residents of SloveniaBarbara Gornik 477

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The Peculiarities of Traditional Marriage Rituals of the Dungan Diaspora: A Comparative-Historical AnalysisZulfiya Imyarova 492

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The Tensions and Triumphs of the First History of Carpathian Rus’ and the Carpatho-RusynsNicholas K. Kupensky 506

Comments on Paul Robert Magocsi’s With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus’ and Carpatho-RusynsHarvey Goldblatt 512

Orientation within Concentric Circles: Comments on Paul Robert Magocsi’s With Their Backs to the MountainsJohn-Paul Himka 515

An Historic History: Comments Regarding Paul Robert Magocsi’s With Their Backs to the MountainsPeter Galadza 520

The Interwar Years in Paul Robert Magocsi’s With Their Backs to the MountainsValerii Padiak 523

Threats to Regional Identity: From Atheist Communists to the Virgin MaryChris Hann 526

The Author’s ObservationsPaul Robert Magocsi 530

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