Confessions / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Inventing invention: the limits of national identity formation ; Getting here / Alexander J. Motyl -- Textual nation: poetry and nationalism in Armenian political culture ; Memoirs of a diasporan nationalist / Khachig Tololyan -- The construction of nationality in Galacian Rus:́ Icarian flights in almost all directions ; My past and identities / John-Paul Himka -- Reading the radical subject: Gramsci, Glinos, and paralanguages of the modern nation ; Strange rhapsody / Janet Hart -- N. Ia. Marr and the national origins of Soviet ethnogenesis ; How I became multicultural / Yuri Slezkine -- Intellectual elites and the vicissitudes of "Imagined nation" in Poland ; Coping with the problem of nation in Poland / Andrzej Walicki -- Civil society or nation / "Europe" in the symbolism in Romania's postsocialist politics ; How i became nationed in Transylvania / Katherine Verdery -- The labilities of liberalism and nationalism after Communism: Polish businessmen in the articulation of the nation ; Studying nations, movements, and business / Michael D. Kennedy -- Toward a theory of national intellectual practice / Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D. Kennedy