'Regimes of Historicity' in Southeastern and Northern Europe, 1890-1945 : Discourses of Identity and Temporality

All of us who participated in the research program that led to this volume would like to thank the Volkswagen Foundation, the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, and the Swedish Bank Tercentenary Foundation for financing the scholarships, our workshops, and the editing work on the manuscript. We are grateful to the staff of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and particularly to the administrative assistant, Dimiter Dimov, for providing excellent services and smooth organization that complemented the friendly and creative ambience of the Centre. Finally, we would like to thank Garth Greenwell and Imogen Bayley for the competent language editing and technical work on the manuscript. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Regimes of ‘Balkan Historicity’: The Critical Turn and Regional Time in Studies of the Balkans before the First World War....Pages 21-42 Latecomers and Forerunners: Temporality, Historicity, and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Finnish Historiography....Pages 43-61 Temporality and Identity in Danish Historical Discourse, 1900–45: Danish Historians Writing Modernity....Pages 62-81 Regimes of Historicity, Identity, and Temporality in Montenegro, 1905–45....Pages 82-100 Temporalization and Professionalization: The Case of Lauritz Weibull and the Swedish Discipline of History....Pages 101-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 Transcending Modernity: Agrarian Populist Visions of Collective Regeneration in Interwar East Central Europe....Pages 119-145 Cooperative Modernity: Discursive Constructions of Social Order in the Bulgarian Cooperative Movement of the Interwar Period....Pages 146-169 Revolutionary Change, Individualism, and Collectivism: Historicity in Anarchist Thinking and Its Socialist Critique in Early Twentieth-Century Finland....Pages 170-187 Regimes of ‘Degeneration’ and ‘Regeneration’: Eugenics and Modernization in Bulgaria before the Second World War....Pages 188-209 Generation, Regeneration, and Discourses of Identity in the Intellectual Foundations of Romanian Fascism: The Case of the Axa Group....Pages 210-229 Front Matter....Pages 231-231 Regimes of Historicity and Discourses of Modernity: The Conceptualization of Past and Future in Swedish Social Sciences since the 1870s....Pages 233-253 Byzantium Evolutionized: Architectural History and National Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Serbia....Pages 254-274 Modernist Folklorism: Discourses on National Music in Greece and Turkey, 1900–45....Pages 275-294 The Past, Present, and Future of the Muslim Millet: Discourses of Modernity and Identity in Interwar Bulgaria, 1923–39....Pages 295-315 ‘The Clash of Generations’: The Identity Discourses of Romanian Jewish Intellectuals in the Interwar Period....Pages 316-336 ‘Historical Truth and the Realities of Blood’: Romanian and Hungarian Narratives of National Belonging and the Case of the Moldavian Csangos, 1920–45....Pages 337-356 Back Matter....Pages 357-361 "Cover" -- "Half-Title" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "Introduction" -- "Part I: Historical Cultures and Concepts of Time" -- "1 Regimes of â#x80;#x98;Balkan Historicityâ#x80;#x99;: The Critical Turn and Regional Time in Studies of the Balkans before the First World War" -- "2 Latecomers and Forerunners: Temporality, Historicity, and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Finnish Historiography" -- "3 Temporality and Identity in Danish Historical Discourse, 1900â#x80;#x93;45: Danish Historians Writing Modernity" -- "4 Regimes of Historicity, Identity, and Temporality in Montenegro, 1905â#x80;#x93;45" -- "5 Temporalization and Professionalization: The Case of Lauritz Weibull and the Swedish Discipline of History" -- "Part II: The Ideologies of Regeneration" -- "6 Transcending Modernity: Agrarian Populist Visions of Collective Regeneration in Interwar East Central Europe" -- "7 Cooperative Modernity: Discursive Constructions of Social Order in the Bulgarian Cooperative Movement of the Interwar Period" -- "8 Revolutionary Change, Individualism, and Collectivism: Historicity in Anarchist Thinking and Its Socialist Critique in Early Twentieth-Century Finland" -- "9 Regimes of â#x80;#x98;Degenerationâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;Regenerationâ#x80;#x99;: Eugenics and Modernization in Bulgaria before the Second World War" -- "10 Generation, Regeneration, and Discourses of Identity in the Intellectual Foundations of Romanian Fascism: The Case of the Axa Group" -- "Part III: Representations of Modernity and NationalTemporalities" -- "11 Regimes of Historicity and Discourses of Modernity: The Conceptualization of Past and Future in Swedish Social Sciences since the 1870s" -- "12 Byzantium Evolutionized: Architectural History and National Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Serbia" The volume undertakes a comparative analysis of the various discursive traditions dealing with the connection between modernity and historicity in two 'small-culture' European regions: Southeastern and Northern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark). It seeks to reconstruct the ways in which different 'temporalities' and time horizons produced alternative representations of the past and the future, of continuity and discontinuity in a wide spectrum of twentieth-century social and political thinking about modernity and identity: how the ever-growing distance between experience and expectation shaped identity discourse and political action; how the 'politics of time' framed political languages in these regions. Above all, the book focuses on the ways in which these political traditions and languages of identity were shaped and interpreted by the different branches of the humanities and the newly formed social sciences. The volume calls for a rethink of the usual metaphors rooted in temporal dimensions that are used for non-core Western cultures, such as belatedness, asynchrony, backwardness, catching-up, and rebirth The volume undertakes a comparative analysis of the various discursive traditions dealing with the connection between modernity and historicity in Southeastern and Northern Europe, reconstructing the ways in which different "temporalities" produced alternative representations of the past and future, of continuity and discontinuity, and identity.