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Politics without a Past : The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism /

Argues that the rise to power of quasi-nationalist demagogues in many post-communist countries is the result of "organized forgetting" orchestrated by communist regimes that left these countries with little common history

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Shari J., 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The legacy of two totalitarianisms
  • 2. Historical consciousness, family stories, and nationalism
  • 3. Weak nationalism in Slovakia: the precommunist period
  • 4. Islands of history: the Democrats and the Nationalists
  • 5. Organized forgetting: elites with no history
  • 6. Nationalism without nationalists? Democracy?
  • 7. Politics in a hall of mirrors.