Rampart Nations

Liliya Berezhnaya is an Assistant Professor at University of Münster's "Religion and Politics" Cluster of Excellence in Germany. Her publications include Iconic Turns: Nation and Religion in Eastern European Cinema since 1989 (2013), co-edited with Christian Schmitt, and The World to Come: Ukrainian Images of the Last Judgment (2015), co-authored with John-Paul Himka.Heidi Hein-Kircher earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. In 2018, she earned her habilitation degree at Philipps University in Marburg. She is currently on the research staff at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany. She is also the Head of Department at the Institute’s Academic Forum.

“This volume does not simply offer a study on the history of nationalism in Eastern Europe, but also shows how history is still alive today and informs our everyday lives. As such, Rampart Nations is a great resource for students and scholars of both historical and contemporary Eastern Europe.” Slavic & East European Journal“This collection contributes a great deal to the relativizing of the different ideas of bulwarks. By contrasting these the volume makes the commonalities more visible.” Sehepunkte“This volume is a successful example of how History can offer insights into political challenges of the present…The quality of the contributions is excellent throughout, as are the numerous cross references, indicating the competent work done by the editors. The volume as a whole but also because of the quality of the individual contributions is to be recommended unreservedly.” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration and ToponymsPART I: BACKGROUNDIntroduction: Constructing a Rampart Nation: Conceptual FrameworkLiliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-KircherChapter 1. The Origins of Antemurale Christianitatis Myths: Remarks on the Promotion of a Political ConceptKerstin WeiandPART II: (DE-)SACRALIZING AND NATIONALIZING BORDERLANDSChapter 2. Not a Bulwark, But a Part of the Larger Catholic Community: The Romanian Greek Catholic Church in Transylvania (1700–1850)Ciprian GhisaChapter 3. Securitizing the Polish Bulwark:The Mission of Lviv in Polish Travel Guides During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesHeidi Hein-KircherChapter 4. Ghetto as an "Inner Antemurale"? Debates on Exclusion, Integration, and Identity in Galicia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturyJürgen HeydeChapter 5. Holy Ground and a Bulwark against "the Other": The (Re)Construction of an Orthodox Crimea in the Nineteenth-Century Russian EmpireKerstin S. JobstChapter 6. Bastions of Faith in the Oceans of Ambiguities: Monasteries in the East European Borderlands (Late Nineteenth–Beginning of the Twentieth Century)Liliya BerezhnayaChapter 7. 'The Turkish Wall': Turkey as an Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Bulwark in the Twentieth CenturyZaur GasimovPART III: PROMOTING ANTEMURALE DISCOURSESChapter 8. Why Didn’t the Antemurale Historical Mythology Develop in Early Nineteenth-Century Ukraine?Volodymyr KravchenkoChapter 9. Translating the Border(s) in a Multilingual and Multiethnic Society: Antemurale Myths in Polish and Ukrainian Schoolbooks of the Habsburg MonarchyPhilipp HofenederChapter 10. Mediating the Antemurale Myth in East Central Europe: Religion and Politics in Modern Geographers' Entangled Lives and MapsSteven SeegelChapter 11. Bulwarks of Anti-Bolshevism: Russophobic Polemic of the Christian Right in Poland and Hungary in the Interwar Years and Their Roots in the Nineteenth CenturyPaul SrodeckiChapter 12. Defenders of the Russian Land: Viktor Vasnetsov's Warriors and Russia's Bulwark MythStephen M. NorrisPART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE BULWARK MYTHS TODAYChapter 13. Antemurale Thinking as Historical Myth and Ethnic Boundary MechanismPål KolstøChapter 14. Concluding Thoughts on Central and Eastern European Bulwark Rhetoric in the Twenty-First CenturyPaul SrodeckiIndex