National understanding. Searching for objective reasons and social construction

The monograph is devoted to the search for objective bases of nationonimation, identifying theoretical and practical potential of methodological paradigms used for an adequate explanation of the ethnos, nation, nationalism, national self-consciousness and national identity, their effective application in the socio-political and legal practice of regulating inter-ethnic and national relations.
The authors seek to bring the idea to the reader that the use of objective grounds in the formation and development of the nation is accompanied by the process of its social design - production and reproduction that does not have anything common with "arbitrary manipulation" or "fabrication". At the same time, the socio-political and historical contexts of the formation of nationalism as a reaction of people to social inequality in ethnic and national relations are taken into account, as discontent of the political elites on a failed, in their opinion, the modernization of society in the socio-historical process of nazi-core.
The book presents a brief systematized review of numerous discussions about the ethnicity, nation and nationalism, which makes it in demand for all who are interested in obtaining a complete and clear idea of ​​these phenomena