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Region, State and Identity in
Central and Eastern Europe

THE CASS SERIES IN REGIONAL AND FEDERAL STUDIES ISSN 1363-5670

General Editor: John Loughlin

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This series brings together some of the foremost academics and theorists to examine the timely subject of regional and federal issues, which since the mid-1980s have become key questions in political analysis and practice all over the world.

The Political Economy of Regionalism

edited by Michael Keating and John Loughlin

The Regional Dimension of the European Union: Towards a Third Level in Europe? edited by Charlie Jeffery

Remaking the Union: Devolution and British Politics in the 1990s

edited by Howard Elcock and Michael Keating

Paradiplomacy in Action: The Foreign Relations of Subnational Governments

edited by Francisco Aldecoa and Michael Keating

Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union: Regions in Conflict

edited by James Hughes and Gwendolyn Sasse

First published 2002 in Great Britain by

FRANK CASS PUBLISHERS

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and in the United States of America by

FRANK CASS PUBLISHERS

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Transferred to Digital Printing 2005

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Copyright 2002 Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Region, state and identity in Central and Eastern Europe.
(The Cass series in regional and federal studies)
1. Regionalism Europe, Central 2. Regionalism Europe,
Eastern, 3. Nationalism Europe, Central 4. Nationalism
Europe, Eastern 5. Europe, Central Politics and
government 19896. Europe, Eastern Politics and
government 1989
I. Batt, Judy, 1955 II. Wolczuk, Kataryna

320.80943

ISBN 0-7146-5243-1 (cloth)

ISBN 0-7146-8225-X (paper)

ISSN 1363-5670

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Region, state and identity in Central and Eastern Europe/

edited by Judy Batt and Kataryna Wolczuk.

p. cm. (The Cass series in regional and federal studies

ISSN 1363-5670)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7146-5243-1 (hard) ISBN 0-7146-8225-X (pbk.)

1. RegionalismEurope, CentralCase studies.

2. RegionalismEurope, EasternCase studies. I. Batt, Judy.

II. Wolczuk, Kataryna. III. Series.

JN96.A38 R4365 2002

320.943dc21 2002007002

This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue of Regional and Federal
Studies (ISSN 1359-7566), Vol.12, No.2 (Summer 2002),

published by Frank Cass and Co. Ltd.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or
introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher of this book.

Contents

Introduction: Region, State and Identity in
Central and Eastern Europe Judy Batt

Hungary: Patterns of Political Conflict over
Territorial-Administrative Reform Brigid Fowler

Slovakia: An Anthropological Perspective on
Identity and Regional Reform Alexandra Bituskovci

Catching up with Europe? Constitutional Debates
on the Territorial-Administrative Model in
Independent Ukraine Kataryna Wolczuk

Narva Region within the Estonian Republic:
From Autonomism to Accommodation? David J. Smith

Upper Silesia: Rebirth of a Regional Identity
in Poland Luiza Bialasiewicz

Polands Eastern Borderlands: Political
Transition and the Ethnic Question Marzena Kisielowska-Lipman

Transcarpathia: Peripheral Region at
the Centre of Europe Judy Batt

Judy Batt

Kataryna Wolczuk

Acknowledgements

The research on which this volume is based was financed by the Economic and Social Research Councils One Europe or Several? Programme, for which the editors express their gratitude. Special thanks are due to the energy and enthusiasm of the Programme Coordinator, Professor Helen Wallace.

All the chapters except that of Bialasiewicz were produced by the project Fuzzy Statehood and European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe (ref. no. L213 25 2001) based at the University of Birmingham, while that of Bialasiewicz was produced by the project Regional Identity and European Citizenship (ref. no. L213 25 22031) based at the University of Durham.

The editors would like to thank Wanda Knowles for her assistance in preparing the final manuscript for publication.

MAP 1

STATES AND REGIONS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

MAP 2
TWO EUROREGIONS

Acronyms and Abbreviations

ARC	Autonomous Republic of Crimea
AWS	Electoral Action Solidarity
CER	Carpathian EuroRegion
CHCA	Carpathian Hungarian Cultural Association
CSCE	Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
CPU	Communist Party of Ukraine
DPL	Democratic Party of Labour (Estonia)
DS	Slovak Democratic Party
ESSR	Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
FIDESZ	Federation of Young Democrats
FIDESZ-MPP	FIDESZ-Hungarian Civic Party
FKGP	Independent Smallholders Party
GOP	Upper Silesian Industrial District
HZDS	Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
IRBR	Interregional Block for Reforms
KDH	Slovak Christian Democratic Party
KDNP	Christian Democratic Peoples Party
MDG	Interregional Group of Deputies
MDF	Hungarian Democratic Forum
MSZP	Hungarian Socialist Party
NES	Narva Estonian Society
NKVD	Peoples Commissariat for Internal Security (later the KGB)
PDSR	Party of Social Democracy of Romania
PKWN	Committee of National Liberation
PRM	Greater Romania Party
RMDSZ	Democratic Union of Romanian Magyars
RSFSR	Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
SDL	Slovak Democratic Left Party
SLD	Democratic Left Alliance
SMK	Hungarian Coalition Party
SNS	Slovak National Party
SOP	Civic Understanding Party
SZDSZ	Alliance of Free Democrats
TUC	Trade Union Centre
UkrSSR	Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
UMO	Union of Cities and Towns in Slovakia
UNR	Ukrainian Peoples Republic (191720)
UPA

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