Whose Fatherland? Which History? Reflections on Timothy Snyder's The Reconstruction of Nations

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Notes

1. For an image of the gravestone see: http://homepage.mac.com/crowns/pl/zz_grob_pilsudski2.gif (accessed 16 May 2012).

2. Wikipedia, “Frédéric Chopin” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin (accessed 16 May 2012).

3. Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, London: Bodley Head, 2010.

4. “Poland's war against Lithuania over education law”, The Baltic Times, April 6 2011, http://www.baltictimes.com/tools/print_article/28383 (accessed 16 May 2012).

5. Bilder aus der Geschichte des evangelischen Deutschtums in Litauen, I and II, Hilfskomitee der Evangelischen Deutschen aus Litauen 1965, 1968. A map on the inside front cover of II shows their truly remarkable presence between the wars (note the absence of the Wilno region). The youngest May brother taught Sunday School in Kaunas.

6. See: http://fortress.wl.dvgu.ru/eng/r-j-war_en.htm (accessed 16 May 2012).

7. Charles Ingrao, “Understanding Ethnic Conflict in Central Europe: An Historical Perspective”, Nationalities Papers 27/2 (June 1999), 291–318.

8. Wikipedia, “Lublin Union 1569” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lublin_Union_1569.PNG (accessed 16 May 2012).