Revolutions, Nations, Empires

Alexander J. Motyl is associate professor of political science and deputy director of the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University. He is the author and editor of six books including Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR and Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities: History and Comparison in the Study of the USSR. He is also the editor of The Encyclopedia of Nationalism.

• 1. Nations 1. Nations and Nationalism 2. Theories of the Nation 3. The Modernity of Nationalism 2. Revolutions 4. The Concept of Revolution 5. Limits on Revolution 6. Structural Constraints and Starting Points: The Logic of Systemic Change in Ukraine and Russia 3. Empires 7. Coneceptualizing Empire 8. Theorizing Empire 9. The Future of Empire