Book Review: Politics without a Past
Book Review: Politics without a Past

Summary/Abstract: Book Review: Politics without a Past. By Shari J. Cohen. London and Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. More than ten years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the process of the post-communist transition in Central and Eastern Europe is “obscure” and “puzzling” (p.1), Shari Cohen begins her book, and explains further: “Former communists have become nationalists, heroic dissidents have all but disappeared from the political scene or disappointed as they took up the banner of fascist periods from the past, party labels and identifications are fleeting and have little to do with policy positions, populations remain cynical and apathetic, these societies remain confused about the most important moments in their history” (p.2).

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