Purpose and Privation: Nation and Economy in Post-Habsburg Eastern Europe and Post-Soviet Eurasia
Purpose and Privation: Nation and Economy in Post-Habsburg Eastern Europe and Post-Soviet Eurasia

Summary/Abstract: The rise and fall of multinational empires have indelibly transformed the political-economic history of Eastern Europe-redrawing its borders, recasting its economic institutions, and redefining the identities of its nations. Just as the political economy of interwar Eastern Europe was shaped by the economic relations among the successor states of the Habsburg Empire, post-cold war Eastern Europe and Eurasia have been defined by relations among successor states of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s and 1990s, the new states that emerged from fallen empires were too interdependent to escape close economic ties with one another. But their economic ties were too politicized to remain as uncontested as when they composed one state. These two periods of change were historical moments when a regional economy was reconstituted and new national economies constructed and relationally defined. [...]

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