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The creation of the multiethnic Commonwealth.

Post-1945 state interests, the 1989 transition, and entry into NATO and the EU . The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine,...

is a 2003 history book by Timothy Snyder that explores how four modern nations emerged from the ruins of the multiethnic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth . Core Arguments The creation of the multiethnic Commonwealth

Early modern Ukraine, massacres of Poles in Volhynia, and post-WWII ethnic cleansing . Poland the 1989 transition

The disintegration of the early modern nation and the rise of radical nationalism.

The book traces how this inclusive identity was replaced in the 19th and 20th centuries by rival ethnic nationalisms , often leading to extreme violence and ethnic cleansing .

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the "Wilno Question," and Soviet-era Vilnius. Ukraine