Fantasies of Salvation : Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe /

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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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Main Author: Tismaneanu, Vladimir
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Post-communism.
Politics and government
Ideology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > General.
Postcommunisme > Europe de l'Est.
Postcommunisme > Ex-URSS.
Postcommunisme > Europe centrale.
Ideologie > Ex-URSS.
Ideologie > Europe de l'Est.
Post-communism > Europe, Central.
Post-communism > Former Soviet republics.
Post-communism > Europe, Eastern.
Ideology > Former Soviet republics.
Ideology > Europe, Eastern.
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics.
Eastern Europe.
Central Europe.
Europe de l'Est > Politique et gouvernement > 1989-
Ex-URSS > Politique et gouvernement.
Europe de l'Est > Politique et gouvernement.
Europe, Eastern > Politics and government.
Former Soviet republics > Politics and government.
Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 nationalists pose a serious threat to democratic forces. A leading observer of the often baffling world of post-Communist Europe, Tismaneanu shows that extreme nationalistic and authoritarian thought has been influential in Eastern Europe for much of this century, while liberalism has only shallow.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9781400822508

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