Ivo Banac and Katherine Verdery, eds.: National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe, 255 p., 1995 (ISBN: 0-936586-13-3) (Yale Russian and East European Publications, No. 13), cloth: $24.95.

Contents: Katherine Verdery: Introduction; Jerzy Jedlicki: Polish Concepts of Native Culture; Andrzej Chojnowski: Polish National Character, the Sanacja Camp, and the National Democracy; Andrew Lass: "What are we like?" National Character and the Aesthetics of Distinction in Interwar Czechoslovakia; Tamas Hofer: The "Hungarian Soul" and the "Historic Layers of National Heritage": Conceptualizations of Hungarian Folk Culture, 1880-1944; Zsigmond Pal Pach: Business Mentality and the Hungarian National Character; Katherine Verdery: National Ideology and National Character in Interwar Romania; Keith Hitchins: Orthodoxism: Polemics over Ethnicity and Religion in Interwar Romania; Marian Papahagi: The "National Essence" in Interwar Romanian Literary Life; Ivo Banac: Zarathustra in Red Croatia: Milan Shufflay and his Theory of Nationhood; Alexander Kiossev: The Debate about the Problematic Bulgarian: A View on the Pluralism of the National Ideologies in Bulgaria in the Interwar Period; Andrew Rossos: Macedonianism and Macedonian Nationalism on the Left; Contributors.

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