Paradoxes of 1989
Paradoxes of 1989
Author(s): Gáspár Miklós TamásSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Eastern Europe; postcommunist transformation; transition to democracy; 1989 revolution;
Summary/Abstract: The creation of so-called democratic rule-of-law regimes on the ruins of state socialism has been interpreted by the disoriented and scared Old Left in Eastern Europe as a return to a pre-modern past-and hailed as such by the unreconstructed Old Right east of the Rhine. Curiously enough, this was uncritically echoed at the time in the West: one remembers the media cliches of the period about the alleged re-establishment of historical continuity, the reawakening of that nebulous entity, "the past," and the onset of "normalcy." [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 13/1999
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 353-357
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
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