Очерки о национализме. Essays on Nationalism

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was among the most bracing political minds of the twentieth century, and these essays crackle with the intellectual urgency of a thinker grappling with the most dangerous question of his age: how do peoples survive? Written in the early twentieth century when nationalism was reshaping Europe and Jewish existence hung in the balance, these pieces examine the mechanics of national identity, the violence of inter-ethnic friction, and the moral obligations of peoples toward themselves. Jabotinsky spare no one, neither assimilating Jews who denied their own particularity, nor empires that denied subject peoples dignity. His arguments remain controversial, sometimes deliberately so, but they never fail to provoke. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how nationalism functions, how it fails, and why it still defines our world.