As Hobsbawm mentioned; it is impossible to understand last two centuries of the history without understand the term of “nation” and the vocabulary derived from it. Although the terms such as “nation”, “nationalism”, “national identity” can change according to the context, and the notions which are used to explain them also are fuzzy, the main concern here is to develop an understanding for these concept.
    In the book Nations and Nationalism Since 1780 it is argued that the explanations were made about “why certain groups have become “nations” and others not” according to single criteria such as language or ethnicity or combination of common language, common territory, common history, cultural traits etc. Explanation of Stalin is one of the best known examples:
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