Blood and Belonging (39 page)

In all these journeys, I depended heavily on my translators, researchers, and fixers. In Ukraine, Lina Pomerantsev; in Germany, Elfi Pallis; in Quebec, Françoise Lemaitre
Auger; in Kurdistan, Sheri Laizer; in Northern Ireland, Mary Carson; in Croatia, Alan Birimac and Mark Thompson, whose fine book on the collapse of Yugoslavia influenced my whole view of the area; in Serbia, Lazar Stojanović and Suzana Jovanović.

Portions of the text first appeared—in different form—in
The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The Observer,
and
Granta
.

Finally, my thanks to Martha Caute and Suzanne Webber of BBC Books and to Jonathan Burnham of Chatto for driving this book through a series of publication deadlines we all thought were impossible.

I cannot begin to convey my gratitude to everyone involved. There are few pleasures to match a happy division of labor.

Adorno, Theodor,
68
,
71
,
306

Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985),
272

anti-Semitism,
89
,
123

Arkan.
See
Raznjatović,Željko (a.k.a. Arkan)

Armenia,
30
,
222

Assad, Hafez,
xxv

Atatürk, Kemal,
xxv
,
222
,
264

Auschwitz,
22
,
84

Austro-Hungarian Empire,
6
,
148

Babel, Isaac,
151

backwardness, folklore of,
49
,
181
–
184
,
223
,
225
,
308

Balkans,
xxii
,
8
,
11
,
34
,
49

bloodshed in,
6

genocide in,
8

historical fault lines in,
6

nationalism in,
11
,
33

war criminals in,
31

See also
Bosnia; Croatia; genocide; nationalism; Serbia; Yugoslavia

Baltic states,
xi
,
xiv
–
v
,
49
,
124
,
201

See also
Latvia

Balzac, Honoré de,
143

Barzani, Massoud,
227
–
228
,
237
,
242

Battle of Nations (1813),
69
,
75

Battle of the Boyne (July
12
, 1690),
278
,
283
,
286
–
87

Battleship Potemkin, The,
152

Béland, Claude,
178
–
180
,
211

Belfast,
xxv
,
268
–
271
,
280
,
285
,
292
,
311

Belgium,
172
–
173
,
273
,
305

Belgrade,
xi
,
8
,
9
,
15
,
17
,
22
,
31
–
32
,
40
–
43
,
47
,
50
,
311

Béliveau, Jean,
185

belonging, sense of,
xii
–
xiii
,
xix
,
xv
,
xvii
–
xviii
,
77
,
168
,
256
,
275
,
309
–
12

collective,
225

emotional,
88
–
89

national,
253
,
256

in Quebec,
206
,
212

rituals of,
302

Berlin,
xi
54
,
60
,
102

Wall,
xi
30
,
54
,
57
–
58
,
61
,
76

Berlin, Isaiah,
xviii
,
181

Bissonnette, Lise,
188
–
190
,
193

Black Sea,
xi
122
,
151
,
152
–
153
,
157

Böhnke, Gunther,
62
–
64
,
65
–
66
,
93

Börner, Helmut,
71
–
75
,
80
,
93

Bosnia,
xxiii
,
5
,
13
,
270
,
310

Bosnia-Hercegovina,
15

Bourassa, Henri,
188

Brandt, Willy,
22

Brezhnev, Leonid,
134

Britain.
See
Great Britain

Britishness,
270
–
271
,
279
,
291
,
293
,
302
,
304

Budapest,
xi
77

Canada,
xix
,
xvi
,
xxiv
,
123
,
143
,
145
,
171
,
173
–
212
,
273
,
276
,
302
,
305

See also
ree; multiculturalism; Quebec

capitalism,
xx
,
119
,
128

East German,
74

state,
178

cargo cults,
301
–
305

Carson, Sir Edward,
278
–
81

Catholics,
266
,
271
,
287
–
289
,
291
,
293
,
296
–
299
,
305

Ceauçescu, Nicolae,
81

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart,
89

Charles I,
277

Chekov, Anton,
156

Chetnik, Chobi,
38

Churchill, Sir Winston,
xxi
,
41
–
43

CIS.
See
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Cold War,
x
–
xi
,
xxvi
,
55
,
62
,
173
,
259
,
275
,
311

Collected Works
(Lenin),
155

Commonwealth of

Independent States (CIS),
167

See also
Russia; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)

communism,
xi
,
xvi
–
xvii
,
xxi
,
35
,
78
,
86

in Croatia,
19
,
23

in Eastern Europe,
5
,
7
,
44

in Kurdistan,
229

in Ukraine,
123
,
127
,
131
–
133

in Yugoslavia,
3
,
10
–
11
,
13
,
33
,
41
,
45
–
46
,
50

Conversations with Stalin

(Djilas),
43

Coon Come, Matthew,
197

Cree,
xxv
,
194
–
200

self-determination for,
197
–
199

Crimea,
124
,
151
–
156

Croatia,
ix
–
x
,
xv
,
3
–
51
,
206
,
269
,
299

See also
communism; nationalism

Croatian Democratic Alliance (HDZ) party,
6
,
28

Czechoslovakia,
73
,
81
,
149
,
172
,
305

Dahuk, Iraq,
231
–
233
,
238

DDR.
See
German Democratic Republic (DDR)

Djilas, Milovan,
4
,
32
,
43
–
47

Donetsk, Germany,
123
,
162
–
163
,
165

Doyle, Tommy,
279
–
285
,
298

Drakulić, Slavenka,
10

Dubuc, Alain,
191
–
193

East Germany.
See
Germany

Eastern Europe,
xxi
–
ii
,
xxiii
,
121
See also
communism

Eisenstein, Sergei,
152

Engels, Friedrich,
35
,
98

Enlightenment,
xiv
,
xx

ethnic cleansing,
xxiii
,
24
–
26
,
33
,
270
,
285

See also
genocide

FAP.
See
Frei Arbeiter Partei (FAP)

fascism,
124
,
131

nationalism defined as,
148

federalism,
171
–
176
,
185
,
189
–
190
,
192
–
193
,
200

nationalism and,
172
–
174

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb,
88

First World War,
222
,
245

France, xix, xvi,
69
,
89
,
122

Frankfurt,
76
,
82
,
85
,
93
,
95
–
96
,
98
,
101
,
105
–
106
,
256

Frederick the Great,
81

Freeland, Christia,
127
–
128

Frei Arbeiter Partei (FAP),
84

Freud, Sigmund,
6
,
99

Gagarin, Yuri,
144

genocide

in Balkans,
8
,
270

in Kurdistan,
242
–
248

nationalism and,
248

Geoffrion, Bernie,
211

German Democratic Republic (DDR),
56
,
60
,
64
,
67
,
71
,
73
–
75
,
76
,
79
–
80
,
85
,
91

Germany,
xiv
,
xvi
,
xxiv
,
13
,
52
–
110
,
206
,
276
,
281

See also
German Democratic epublic (DDR); multi-culturalism; nationalism; Protestants; socialism

glasnost era,
123
,
148

Glava?, Branimir,
32

Goebbels, Joseph,
70
,
87

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
102

Gorbachev, Mikhail,
132
,
148
,
152
,
157
,
162

Great Britain, xiii, xix,
69
,
89
,
204
,
271
–
272
,
276
,
300
,
303
,
305

See also
Great Britain; imperialism; Northern Ireland

Guevara, Che,
259

Havel, Václav,
x
,
23

HDZ party.
See
Croatian

Democratic Alliance (HDZ) party

Henry VIII,
277

Hercegovina,
5

See also
Bosnia-Hercegovina

Herder, Johann Gottfried,
89

Hitler, Adolf,
xxiv
,
3
,
70
–
71
,
86
,
89
,
90
–
92
,
94

Hitler-Stalin pact (1939),
148

Hobbes, Thomas,
9
,
33

Hobsbawm, Eric,
127

Hohenzollern Empire,
90

Holocaust,
90

Holy Roman Empire,
90
,
106

Honecker, Erich,
68
,
73
,
81
,
86

Horbal, Nikola,
129
–
131

Hungary,
60
,
149

Husák, Gustav,
81

Hussein, Saddam,
xxv
,
223
–
224
,
226
,
235
,
239
–
42

imperialism,
x
,
xiv
,
xx
–
xxii
,
49
–
50
,
61
,
80
,
122
,
274
–
75

British,
231
,
273
–
276
,
278
,
303

European,
xiv
,
90
,
147

Russian,
154
–
155

India,
xxvi
,
30
,
172
–
173
,
273
,
305

IRA.
See
Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Iran,
xxv
,
222
–
223
,
254

Iraq,
xxv
,
221
–
223
,
265

Ireland,
278
–
279

Irish Republican Army (IRA),
173
,
262
,
271
,
285

Israel,
271

See also
Jews, nationalism

James
II
,
277

Jasenovac, Croatia,
19
,
22
–
24

Jews,
19
,
39
,
89
–
90
,
147
,
165
,
248

JNA.
See
Yugoslav National Army (JNA)

Johnson, Samuel,
xxvi