The reconstruction of nations Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 - Snyder, Timothy (Yale University Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-349) and index
pt. 1. The contested Lithuanian-Belarusian fatherland -- The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1569-1863) -- Lithuania! My fatherland! (1863-1914) -- The First World War and the Wilno question (1914-1939) -- The Second World War and the Vilnius question (1939-1945) -- Epilogue: Soviet Lithuanian Vilnius (1945-1991) -- pt. 2. The embattled Ukrainian borderland -- Early modern Ukraine (1569-1914) -- Galicia and Volhynia at the margin (1914-1939) -- The ethnic cleansing of Western Ukraine (1939-1945) -- The ethnic cleansing of Southeastern Poland (1945-1947) -- Epilogue: Communism and cleansed memories (1947-1981) -- pt. 3. The reconstructed Polish homeland -- Patriotic oppositions and state interests (1945-1989) -- The Normative Nation-Stave (1989-1991) -- European standards and Polish interests (1992-1993) -- Envoi: returns to Europe