The Politics of National Character: A Study in Interwar East European Thought

The book is a comparative analysis of the ideological constructions of national specificity in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. Studying the growing infatuation with "national essence" it seeks to understand the radicalization of nationalism in East Central Europe in connection with the shift of the notions of historicity and temporality.

Trencsényi provides a contextual analysis of the symbolic resources and available ideological references that were used for creating these discourses in the...