The reconstruction of nations : Poland Ukraine Lithuania Belarus 1569 1999 Machine generated contents note: Part I The Contested Lithuanian Belarusian Fatherland 1 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1569 1863) I5 2 Lithuania! My Fatherland! (1863 1914) 31 3 The First World War and the Wilno Question (1914 1939) 52 4 The Second World War and the Vilnius Question (1939 1945) 73 5 Epilogue: Soviet Lithuanian Vilnius (1945 1991) 90 Part II The Embattled Ukrainian Borderland 6 Early Modern Ukraine (1569 1914) I05 7 Galicia and Volhynia at the Margin (1914 1939) 133 8 The Ethnic Cleansing of Western Ukraine (1939 1945) 154 9 The Ethnic Cleansing of Southeastern Poland (1945 1947) I79 10 Epilogue: Communism and Cleansed Memories (1947 1981) 202 Part III The Reconstructed Polish Homeland 11 Patriotic Oppositions and State Interests (1945 1989) 217 12 The Normative Nation State (1989 1991) 232 13 European Standards and Polish Interests (1992 1993) 256 14 Envoi: Returns to Europe 277 Abbreviations 294 Archives 295 Document Collections 296 Notes 299 Acknowledgments 350 Index 355