Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Foreword vi
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Note on Transliteration and Translation xii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 The Poetics of Disillusion 38
8. 2 The Fear of the Rabble 59
9. 3 1919 and the Trope of the Modern Nation 79
10. 4 The Revolution on the Screen 106
11. 5 The Politics of Rehabilitation 133
12. 6 Rewriting History in the 1990s 155
13. 7 Rewriting History in the Wake of 2011 182
14. Conclusion 204
15. Bibliography 210
16. Index 226