1: From the Impossible to the Inevitable 1
2: The Tide of Nationalism and the Mobilizational Cycle 47
3: Structuring Nationalism 103
4: "Thickened" History and the Mobilization of Identity 147
5: Tides and the Failure of Nationalist Mobilization 200
6: Violence and Tides of Nationalism 271
7: The Transcendence of Regimes of Repression 320
8: Russian Mobilization and the Accumulating "Inevitability" of Soviet Collapse 385
9: Conclusion: Nationhood and Event 443
App. I: Procedures for Applying Event Analysis to the Study of Soviet Protest in the Glasnost Era 460
App. II: Sources for the Compilation of Event Data in a Revolutionary Context 472
Index 489