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Episode: From the Ashes of Empire: Competing Nationalisms and the Radicalisation
Description: Recorded December 3, 2018.
This public lecture will be presented by Dr Raul Cârstocea, Lecturer in European Studies at the Europa Universität Flensburg and Fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena.
This talk will address the idea of ‘the nation’ in Romania after 1918 and its importance for the radicalisation of interwar politics. It will briefly discuss the history of competing nationalisms in 19th century Romania, the country’s wartime experience and the post-war territorial changes that resulted in a significantly expanded and politically heterogeneous entity referred to as ‘Greater Romania.’ This territory was marked by the overlapping legacies of the three Eas...