Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Narratives of the revolutions
  • 2. Revolution as a utopia
  • 3. Utopia not yet fulfilled : ambivalence after the revolutions
  • 4. Utopia not fulfilled : disillusionment
  • 5. Individualism as a utopia
  • 6. Collective utopias : from national independence to Europe
  • Conclusion : politics between utopia and disillusionment
  • App. 1. The interviews and the method of analysis
  • App. 2. Themes of the interviews
  • App. 3. Themes for the Czech essayists
  • App. 4. President Lennart Meri's speeches analysed in chapter 6
  • App. 5. Translations of the German interview passages.