Tismaneanu Fantasies of Salvation

Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2250-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Why Eastern Europe and Why Care?

Introduction: After Marx: The Return of Political Myth 3

1 Resurrecting Utopia: Ideology versus Mythology 23

2 The Leninist Debris, or Waiting for Peron 38

3 Vindictive and Messianic Mythologies: Post-Communist Nationalism and Populism 65

4 Scapegoating Fantasies: Fascism, Anti-Semitism, and Myth Making in East Central Europe 88

5 Is the Revolution Over? The Myth of Decommunization and the Quest for Political Justice 111

6 A Velvet Counterrevolution? Dissidents, Dreamers, and Realpolitik 141

Conclusion: The Mythological Construction of Reality: Political Complexity in a Post-Communist World 153

Notes 169

Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free Press).