Dictatorships with Democratic Legitimacy: Democracy versus Nation
Dictatorships with Democratic Legitimacy: Democracy versus Nation
Author(s): Vesna PusićSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Dictatorship; totalitarianism; Eastern and Central Europe; socialism; democracy; political system; Yugoslav socialism;
Summary/Abstract: In a paraphrase of the opening sentence of the novel Anna Karenina, Jacques Rupnik in 1988 commented that all regimes of the "brighter future" have political systems that are alike, but that each of these societies is unhappy in its own peculiar way with its own peculiar experience of totalitarianism. These "brighter future" regimes are the real socialisms of Eastern and Central Europe. In the late 1980s our peculiar totalitarianisms were quite familiar to us; moreover, they were but a wan shadow of their former menacing omnipotence and alertness. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 08/1994
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 383-401
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English
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