Fantasies of Salvation : : Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe / / Vladimir Tismaneanu.
Eastern Europe has become an ideological battleground since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with liberals and authoritarians struggling to seize the ground lost by Marxism. In Fantasies of Salvation, Vladimir Tismaneanu traces the intellectual history of this struggle and warns that authoritarian...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface. Why Eastern Europe and Why Care?
- Introduction After Marx: The Return of Political Myth
- One. Resurrecting Utopia: Ideology versus Mythology
- Two. The Leninist Debris, or Waiting for Perón
- Three. Vindictive and Messianic Mythologies: Post-Communist Nationalism and Populism
- Four. Scapegoating Fantasies: Fascism, Anti-Semitism, and Myth Making in East Central Europe
- Five. Is the Revolution Over? The Myth of Decommunization and the Quest for Political Justice
- Six. A Velvet Counterrevolution? Dissidents, Dreamers, and Realpolitik
- Conclusion. The Mythological Construction of Reality: Political Complexity in a Post-Communist World
- Notes
- Index