Freedom  on  the  post-totalitarian  horizon Cover Image

Wolność w horyzoncie posttotalitarnym
Freedom on the post-totalitarian horizon

Author(s): Agnieszka Matusiak, Andrzej Polak, Monika Wolting
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Sociology, Politics and society, Social development
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: freedom; post-communist Europe; post-dependency; postcolonial studies; neo-colonial discourse

Summary/Abstract: The authors of this sketch are drawing a panorama of the potential interpretational aspects of understanding the category of freedom in the societies of the post-communist part of Europe. At the same time, they attempt to define the horizon for finding the answer to the identity-forming question that is key for this georegion, i.e. about the essence and the specificity of processes, phenomena and mechanisms of emancipation of culture and societies of post-totalitarian European countries from the legacy of World War II, and particularly its post-Yalta consequences which embedded the countries and nations of Central, East and South-East Europe in the sphere of imperial subordination of Soviet dominance for nearly another half a century.

  • Issue Year: 8/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-17
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish