Историкът и идеята за нацията
The Historian and the Idea of the Nation

Summary/Abstract: This article follows up the debate in progress of late in Western Europe of the question of the history of the national idea. Special attention is paid to the writings of Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner and Eric Hobsbawm, the authors who have played a principal role in the process of giving new meaning to the idea of the nation and its history. The author of the article claims that Anderson is write to see in the nation an “imaginary community”. The nations come in the world as part of the process of state development. Behind that, however, stands a still more global process – the development of capitalism. At the same time in the article are considered also the suggestions about the existence of the nation, the so-called by Anderson “imaginary community” and nationalism in the former Soviet Union in the context of the view that an invariable link exists between capitalism and nation in the process of their development.

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