Course instructorAssociate Professor Adrian Brisku

The course offers a comparative historical perspective on three small nation(states), which had similar experiences with different empires from the late 1870s to the late 1920s. Each of them evolved under three different empires – Bohemians within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Albanians within the Ottoman Empire, and Georgians within the Russian Empire. The course examines their paths to forging a nation-state, as well as economic development and political aspirations. It seeks to familiarize students with the process of nation-state building of small nations shortly after declaring independence and the challenges of dealing with imperial legacies.