Post-1945 state interests, the 1989 transition, and entry into NATO and the EU .
is a 2003 history book by Timothy Snyder that explores how four modern nations emerged from the ruins of the multiethnic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth . Core Arguments The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine,...
Snyder argues that early modern nationhood in the Commonwealth was based on political citizenship and shared noble status , rather than language or ethnicity. Post-1945 state interests, the 1989 transition, and entry