Introduction
Introduction

Author(s): Ivo Banac
Subject(s): Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: Communist Eastern Europe always had a politicized future. The expressionists and the resisters, who were not necessarily of the Right, were predisposed to recognize the weakness of Communist ideology and, hence, the conditional and inherently unstable edifice of Communist power. The cultural relativists and evolutionists, who were not necessarily of the Left, were predisposed to recognize an immense human capacity to adapt to anything that appears “natural.” They therefore exaggerated the staying power of a political order (misunderstood as society) that has been adrift since the generation of its founders. In the words of the Serbian aphorist Aleksandar Beljak, “The new times are here again. We just plain have no luck.”

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