A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1968-2018

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1968-2018
 
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ISBN13:9780198829607
ISBN10:0198829604
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:402 pages
Size:241x164x29 mm
Weight:752 g
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
Authors' Note
Late State Socialism: Consolidation, Legitimization, and Reform from Above
The raison d'état of 'really existing socialism'
National communism: Liberalization or neo-Stalinism?
The dilemmas of perestroika reformism
Political Thought in Exile
Ideological, generational, and institutional cleavages
The intellectual battle with communism
Dissidents and Opposition Movements
The emergence of dissident discourses and subcultures
Dialogue and empowerment
The identity politics of the dissidents
Toward a self-limiting revolution
PART III: Farewell to Modernity? Thinking Politics After the' End of History'
Velvet Revolutions and the Thorny Paths of Transition
Visions of democratic transformation
The ambiguities of the 'liberal consensus'
Coming to terms with the past
Church, religion, and democracy
'Rebuilding the Boat on the Open Sea'
The dilemmas of state-building and constitutional reforms
The specter of ethnopopulism
Modes of coexistence
In Search of a New Ideology
The 'culture wars' of the 2000s
Radicalizing democracy
Centers and peripheries