Table of Contents -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1.Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism -- Roger E. Kanet1 -- I. THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF IDENTITY -- 2."Are you Hungarian or Romanian?" On the Study of National and Ethnic -- Identity in Central and Eastern Europe -- Alina Curticapean5 -- II. IDENTITIES, OLD AND NEW -- 3.The Caucasian Connection: National Identity in the Ballets of -- Aram Khachaturian -- Harlow Robinson23 -- 4.Representing the Empire: The Meaning of Siberia for Russian -- Imperial Identity -- Claudia Weiss33 -- 5.(Re)Presenting Identities: National Archipelagos in Kazan -- Aurora Alvarez Veinguer51 -- 6.Crystallizing and Emancipating Identities in Post-Communist Estonia -- Triin Vihalemm71 -- III. IDENTITY AND FOREIGN RELATIONS -- 7.Europeanization and Euroscepticism: Experiences from Poland and the -- Czech Republic -- Sfiren Riishfij97 -- 8.National Identity and National Interest in Polish Eastern Policy, 1989-2004 -- Krzysztof Fedorowicz131 -- 9.The Nature of Russia's Identity: The Theme of "Russia and the West" -- in Post-Soviet Culture -- Rosalind Marsh 149 -- Index 173