Liberation through Group Rights?: The National Minorities in Interwar Europe

• In Event: National Emancipation and the Attainment of Group Rights: Perspectives from Early 20th-Century East-Central Europe

Abstract

The paper looks into a variety of group-based designs emerging within the context of interwar national minority activism in Europe, particularly the European Nationalities Congress. Discussing ideological ambiguities linked to them, it devotes special attention to the possible links between group rights and cultural, linguistic or political emancipation, as well as the complex and potentially conflicting relationship between group liberation and individual liberty.

Author

• Oskar Mulej, U of Vienna (Austria)