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
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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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.