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Politics of memory in post-authoritarian transitions, volume one.
History is a powerful tool in the hands of politicians, and can be a destructive weapon since power over the past is the power to decide who is a hero and who is a traitor. Tradition, the memory of ancestors, and the experience of previous generations are the keys that unlock the door to citizens�...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLIS,
2017.
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| Edición: | 1ST UNABRIDGED. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Chapter One; From Pinochet to systemic transition. A historical overview; The pre-transition identity; The development of transition identity; The exercise of power by new political elites; The presence of the representatives of the former regime in the public life; The formula chosen to hold the apparatus of the authoritarian regime accountable (or not accountable); Social costs of transformation, especially of the economic transition; The adoption of new, often culturally different, social and political standards
- Democratisation as the fulfilment of intergenerational contract and paying tribute to the victims of the previous regime and to repressed oppositionThe historical need for national unity; Membership in international organisations, alliances and economic and political groups; The assumed post-transition identity; References; Chapter Two; A historical overview; Identity formation. The second Estonian national regeneration; The singing revolution; Democratisation. The "second" independence; The pre-transition identity. Homo Sovieticus?; The development of the transition identity
- The exercise of power by the new political elitesThe presence of the representatives of the former regime in the public life; The formula chosen to hold the apparatus of the authoritarian regime accountable (or not accountable); Social costs of transformation, especially of the economic transition; The adoption of new, often culturally different, social and political standards; Democratisation as the fulfilment of intergenerational contract and paying tribute to the victims of the previous regime and to repressed opposition; The historical need for national unity
- Membership in international organisations, alliances, and economic and political associationsThe assumed post-transition identity. A modern European society?; References; Chapter Three; Historical overview Two stages of the transition Two stages of the transition or two transitions?; The first stage. The second independence; The second independence. Democratisation; Pre-transition identity; The development of the transition identity; The exercise of power by the new political elites; The presence of the representatives of the former regime in the public life
- The formula chosen to hold the apparatus of the authoritarian regime accountable (or not accountable)Social costs of transformation, especially of the economic transition; The adoption of new, often culturally different, social and political standards; Democratisation as the fulfilment of intergenerational contract and paying tribute to the victims of the previous regime and to repressed opposition; The historical need for national unity; Membership in international organisations, alliances, and economic and political associations; The assumed post-transition identity. A civil society?