Nation, or the Power of Myth

About what a nation is, now they say and write a lot. There is a huge layer of scientific literature on this issue, and each year new studies appear. But despite the fact that this concept plays a key role in political life, it has a very limited value as an analytical tool. Why did it happen? How did the meaning of the concept of "nation in Europe have changed from antiquity to modernity? When the concept of "nation" was learned in Russia, and how did its significance and role in the public sphere change in our country? How did you interpret the concept of "nation" social sciences in the XIX-XXI centuries? Is it possible to give a scientific definition of this concept? How do we use the concept of “nation” in political debates in modern Russia? About all this-in the book of Alexei Miller, a professor at the European University in St. Petersburg and the Central European University in Budapest, a leading Russian specialist in the history of nations and nationalism