Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Historie

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 forces.

A leading observer of the often baffling world of post-Communist Europe, Tismaneanu shows that extreme nationalistic and authoritarian thought has been influential in Eastern Europe for much of this century, while liberalism has only shallow historical roots. Despite democratic successes in places such as the Czech Republic and Poland, he argues, it would be a mistake for the West to assume that liberalism will always triumph. He backs this argument by showing how nationalist intellectuals have encouraged ethnic hatred in such countries as Russia, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia by reviving patriotic myths of heroes, scapegoats, and historical injustices. And he shows how enthusiastically these myths have been welcomed by people desperate for some form of "salvation" from political and economic uncertainty.

On a theoretical level, Tismaneanu challenges the common ideas that the ideological struggle is between "right" and "left" or between "nationalists" and "internationalists." In a careful analysis of the conflict's ideological roots, he argues that it is more useful and historically accurate to view the struggle as between those who embrace the individualist traditions of the Enlightenment and those who reject them.

Tismaneanu himself has been active in the intellectual battles he describes, particularly in his native Romania, and makes insightful use of interviews with key members of the dissident movements of the 1970s and 1980s. He offers original observations of countries from the Baltic to the Black Sea and expresses his ideas in a vivid and forceful style. Fantasies of Salvation is an indispensable book for both academic and nonacademic readers who wish to understand the forces shaping one of the world's most important and unpredictable regions.

© 2009 Princeton University Press (E-bog): 9781400822508

Release date

E-bog: 8. juni 2009

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I Charles S. Maier
  2. France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime Jon Elster
  3. A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost Frye Gaillard
  4. A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China Dale C. Copeland
  5. Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania Cody McDevitt
  6. The Wind From the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s – Second Edition: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s - Second Edition Richard Wolin
  7. Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency Jack Cashill
  8. Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People Josiah Ober
  9. The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World Don H. Doyle
  10. Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe Angela E. Stent
  11. The Conscience of a Conservative Barry M. Goldwater
  12. Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany Volker R. Berghahn
  13. Texas: An American History Benjamin Heber Johnson
  14. Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race Thomas J. Sugrue
  15. When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America Heather Hendershot
  16. The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition Richard Wolin
  17. The Shortest History of Eugenics: From “Science” to Atrocity―How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists Erik L. Peterson
  18. Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits Aaron Goldfarb
  19. The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature Josh Lambert
  20. The Culture of Contentment John Kenneth Galbraith
  21. The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America Aram Goudsouzian
  22. Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World Nadya Williams
  23. Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America Nancy L. Rosenblum
  24. The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power Kerry Brown
  25. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 Pauline Maier
  26. Confucian Political Ethics Daniel A. Bell
  27. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Jack N. Rakove
  28. For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE Guy MacLean Rogers
  29. Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History Peter Brown
  30. The Feudal System: How Lords, Vassals, and Serfs Shaped Medieval Europe Arlo Holders
  31. Underserved: Harnessing the Principles of Lincoln's Vision for Reconstruction for Today's Forgotten Communities Chris Pilkerton
  32. A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap Frank L. Holt
  33. General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War Dr. Frank P. Varney
  34. President McKinley: Architect of the American Century Robert W. Merry
  35. Sartor Resartus Thomas Carlyle
  36. LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail Peter L.W. Osnos
  37. Fort Ticonderoga, The Last Campaigns: The War in the North, 1777–1783 Mark Edward Lender
  38. Native American Resistance in the Midwest: The History and Legacy of the Wars that Pushed Indigenous Groups Out of the Region Charles River Editors
  39. A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth Jonathan Mack
  40. Three Months in the Southern States: April-June, 1863: April-June, 1863 Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
  41. Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty Samuel Issacharoff
  42. Magnolia Grove: The Story of Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson Harvey Rosenfeld
  43. China's Church Divided: Bishop Louis Jin and the Post-Mao Catholic Revival Paul P. Mariani
  44. Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech Martha Minow
  45. Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America Stephen Bullivant
  46. History and Morality Donald Bloxham
  47. Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau Craig Childs
  48. On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet