tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post3320924308837749369..comments2023-10-30T07:10:34.610-07:00Comments on Underbelly: Appreciation: Kate Brown's Report from NowhereBucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-6989615800035285362010-02-17T06:43:05.784-08:002010-02-17T06:43:05.784-08:00The Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires...The Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires were non-national and anti-national and the area is still a hodgepodge, with a lot of tiny language groups still hanging on. Persecuted groups migrated from one of them to the other (even into the Ottoman empire), and wars moved large areas from one empire to another. <br /><br />Bela Bartok was a self-identified Hungarian, but spent his early life in parts of Greater Hungary which are now in the Ukraine, in Romania, or in Slovakia. <br /><br />He was a sort of weird underdog multi-nationalist -- he was a Hungarian nationalist visavis Germans and probably Russians, but also supported Hungary's many minority nationalities against Hungarian chauvinism.John Emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12058849885222086640noreply@blogger.com