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This new, memorial edition features Connor's original thorough-going treatment of The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy (Princeton, 1984). His study of the evolution of the relationship between communism and nationalism since 1848 demonstrates that Marx and Engels were eager to wed the world revolutionary movement to the forces of nationalism despite the incompatibility of the two aims. Refined by Lenin, a strategy for harnessing nationalism to the world cause in a prerevolutionary situation contributed to the rise of communism in the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia; a plan to accelerate the demise of nationalism in a post-revolutionary situation was far less successful. The original study is situated between memorials to Connor by Donold Horowitz and Brendan O'Leary, a Tribute to Connor's contributions to the study of ethnonationalism, particularly his insightful assessment of ""the unwithering national question"" in Marxist-Leninist polities, and a new combined Afterword by Connor and Kaiser which reviews developments since 1984 and assesses the significance of the Marxist-Leninist experience for the study of nationalism.

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Walker Connor (1926-2017) devoted his professional career - one that spanned over five decades - to the study of ethnonationalism. Beginning with his early pioneering work contesting the commonly held view that modernization and urbanization would bring an end to ethnonational identity, to the present volume on the failed efforts to solve the so-called national question in socialist states, to more recent work critically analyzing DNA studies seeking to prove the uniqueness of this or that ethnonational community, Walker Connor devoted himself to the quest for understanding ethnonationalism. He is considered one of the world's top scholars in the field of ethnicity and nationalism studies, contributing significantly to its development as an interdisciplinary field. Included among his many well-known works is a compendium of key articles entitled Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton, 1994). Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World: Walker Connor and the Study of Nationalism (Routledge, 2002) was published in honor of his work. Robert J. Kaiser, Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin (Madison). Focuses on the intersection of cultural and political geographies, with special interest in the articulation of power, place and identity. Author of The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994) and The Russians as the New Minority in the Soviet Successor States, co-authored with Jeff Chinn (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996).

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