title: On peoples, history, and sovereignty
abstract: The article opens with materials from the author's research among east Slavs in Poland: a close-up portrayal of villagers classified as Ukrainians in the Polish People's Republic, some of whom had no developed national consciousness; and an equally brief account of a postsocialist project in a nearby city, in which the boundaries between rival peoples were clearly drawn.Explanations for inconsistencies between individuals and enduring tensions between groups must be sought in the complicated his
journal: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe