Fantasies of salvation : democracy, nationalism, and myth in post-communist Europe / Vladimir Tisman...
Fantasies of salvation : democracy, nationalism, and myth in post-communist Europe / Vladimir Tisman...
Fantasies of salvation : democracy, nationalism, and myth in post-communist Europe / Vladimir Tismaneanu.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1998.
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N320.5094091/1
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English
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xi, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Preface: Why Eastern Europe and Why Care? -- Introduction: After Marx: The Return of Political Myth -- 1. Resurrecting Utopia: Ideology versus Mythology -- 2. The Leninist Debris, or Waiting for Peron -- 3. Vindictive and Messianic Mythologies: Post-Communist Nationalism and Populism -- 4. Scapegoat...
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1998.
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New Jersey
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c1998.
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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 nationalists pose a serious threat to democratic f...
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Fantasies of salvation : democracy, nationalism, and myth in post-communist Europe / Vladimir Tismaneanu.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-210) and index.
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c1998.
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N320.5094091/1
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0691048266 (cl : alk. paper)
9780691048260 (cl : alk. paper)
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320.5094091717
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991001034299702626
