Politics without a past : the absence of history in post-communist nationalism / Shari J. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Shari J., 1962-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

Post-communism.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index.

ISBN:

9786613035691

9780822323785

0822323788

9781283035699

1283035693

OCLC:

1142510102