The Legacy of Division : : East and West after 1989 / / ed. by Ferenc Laczó, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Assmann, Aleida,; Bieber, Florian,; Bohle, Dorothee,; Brier, Robert,; Case, Holly,; Chithelen, Niall,; Falk, Barbara J.,; Gabrijelčič, Luka Lisjak,; Georgescu, Diana,; Greskovits, Béla,; Hatherley, Owen,; Iacob, Bogdan C.,; Kuisz, Jarosław,; Laczó, Ferenc,; Leggewie, Claus,; Lóránd, Zsófia,; Mark, James,; Massino, Jill,; Panagiotidis, Jannis,; Puttkamer, Joachim von,; Rupprecht, Tobias,; Sakwa, Richard,; Schlögel, Karl,; Slačálek, Ondřej,; Sonnevend, Julia,; Stan, Marius,; Ther, Philipp,; Tismaneanu, Vladimir,; Wang, James,; Zielonka, Jan,
• HerausgeberIn: Laczó, Ferenc,; Lisjak Gabrijelčič, Luka,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

This volume examines the legacy of the East–West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in Europe. The ideals of 1989 have largely been frustrated by the crises and turmoil of the past decade. The liberal consensus was first challenged as early as the mid-2000s. In Eastern Europe, grievances were directed against the prevailing narratives of transition and ever sharper ethnic-racial antipathies surfaced in opposition to a supposedly postnational and multicultural West. In Western Europe, voices regretting the European Union's supposedly careless and premature expansion eastward began to appear on both sides of the left–right and liberal–conservative divides. The possibility of convergence between Europe's two halves has been reconceived as a threat to the European project. In a series of original essays and conversations, thirty-three contributors from the fields of European and global history, politics and culture address questions fundamental to our understanding of Europe today: How have perceptions and misperceptions between the two halves of the continent changed over the last three decades? Can one speak of a new East–West split? If so, what characterizes it and why has it reemerged? The contributions demonstrate a great variety of approaches, perspectives, emphases, and arguments in addressing the daunting dilemma of Europe's assumed East–West divide.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. The legacy of division: East and West after 1989 -- Staring through the mocking glass: Three misperceptions of the East-West divide since 1989 -- Back to Cold War and beyond -- The price of unity The transformation of Germany and east central Europe after 1989 -- Thirty years on: Germany’s unfinished unity -- This mess of troubled times -- The mythology of the East-West divide -- Anxious Europe -- ‘But this is the world we live in’ Corruption, everyday managing, and civic mobilization in post-socialist Romania -- The end of the liberal world as we know it? Two walls in 1989 -- Wests, East-Wests, and divides -- The Great Substitution -- The struggle over 1989. The rise and contestation of eastern European populism -- Beyond anti-democratic temptation -- Dissidence – doubt – creativity: Revisiting 1983 -- Gendering dissent: Human rights, gender history and the road to 1989 -- Creating feminism in the shadow of male heroes That other story of 1989 -- Legacies of 1989 for dissent today -- Of hopes and ends: Czech transformations after 1989 -- Just because the map says so, doesn’t mean it’s true: Thirty years after 1989, from an island perspective -- The East in you never leaves -- Freedom of movement: A European dialectic -- ‘The Romanians are coming’ Emerging divisions and enduring misperceptions in contemporary Europe -- The two faces of European disillusionment: An end to myths about the West and the East -- Go East! -- ‘The future was next to you’ An interview with Ivan Krastev on ’89 and the end of liberal hegemony -- ‘The distorting mirror’ A conversation between Igor Pomerantsev and Peter Pomerantsev -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index