Renee’s Reviews > The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999 > Status Update
Renee
is 49% done
This book started out being really hard for me to comprehend - like really over my head. But now that I'm halfway through, it's actually helping me to understand how nations are built and how we came to our current world of nationalism.
— Oct 10, 2025 01:27PM
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Renee
is 67% done
History of so ugly and repetitive. I feel like the people in East Germany have spent all of history being herded over one border or another trying not to be "ethnically cleansed". What is it with men and their need for ALWAYS "more land" to colonize and "cleanse". And why am I using the word "cleanse" instead of kill?
— Oct 15, 2025 10:14AM
Renee
is 45% done
Now that we're getting closer to the world wars, it's starting to be less foreign to me. The first part was all about things I take for granted: how culture and ethnicity and language and all this other stuff is wrapped up in what we call "a county" or "state" or "nation".
— Oct 09, 2025 06:11PM
Renee
is 36% done
This book is actually pretty far over my head, but I'm sticking with it.
— Oct 09, 2025 08:51AM
