RONALD J. HILL Professor, Trinity College, Dublin MATOGORZATA BUDYTA-BUDZYNSKA Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw PAMELA JOHNSTON Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina RAJAT CANGULY Author of Understanding Ethnic conflict: The International Dimension (Longman, 1998) BARBARA E. HICKS Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina ED JOCELYN Doctorate in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Bradford IWONA KABZINSKA Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Z. ANTHONY KRUSZEWSKI Professor of Political Science, University of Texas, El Paso MARCIN KULA Professor of History, University of Warsaw JOHN J. KULCZYNSKI Professor of History, University of Illinois, Chicago DR ELAENA MARUSHIAKOVA Specialist on the Romani of Bulgaria SUSYN YVONNE MIHALASKY Lecturer in Political Science, Montclair State University, New Jersey DR VESSELIN POPOV Specialist on the Romani of Bulgaria YURI PETROVICH SHABAEV Vice-Director of the Komi Science Centre ALLA SKVORTSOVA Moldovan Academy of Sciences RAY TARAS Former Professor of Political Science, Tulane University MARCIN ZAREMBA The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw I.L. ZHEREBTCOV The Komi Science Centre, Urals Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

• General Editor's Introduction Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Ray Taras The Psychology of Overlapping Identities: Ethnic, Citizen, Nation and Beyond; P.Jonston Conover and B. E. Hicks Why do Ethnic Groups Mobilise?; R. Ganguly Nationalism, Identity and the Belarusan State; E.D. Jocelyn Redefining National Identity after Communism: a Preliminary Comparison of Ukraine and Poland; R. Taras A New Interpretation of Ethnicity in Central and Eastern Europe; M. Budyta-Budzynska Working-Class Nationalism among Polish Migrants in the Ruhr Region; J. Kulczycki Poles in the Newly Independent States of Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine; Z. Anthony Kruszewski The Ethnic Identity of the Polish Population in Belarus: a Research Note; I. Kabzinska Nationalism as an Expression of Social Conflicts in Contemporary Poland; M. Kula and M. Zaremba The Russians in Moldova: Political Orientations; A. Skvortsova National Development and Politics in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Russia; Y.P. Shabaev and I.L. Zherebtcov Gypsy Nomads in Bulgaria - Traditions and the Contemporary Dimension; V. Popov Self-government Among Bulgarian Gypsies; E. Marushiakova Ethno-national Orientation among Lemkos in Poland; SY. Mihalasky Index