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Author Cohen, Shari J., 1962-

Title Politics without a past : the absence of history in post-communist nationalism / Shari J. Cohen
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents 1. The legacy of two totalitarianisms -- 2. Historical consciousness, family stories, and nationalism -- 3. Weak nationalism in Slovakia: the precommunist period -- 4. Islands of history: the Democrats and the Nationalists -- 5. Organized forgetting: elites with no history -- 6. Nationalism without nationalists? Democracy? -- 7. Politics in a hall of mirrors
Summary Argues that the rise to power of quasi-nationalist demagogues in many post-communist countries is the result of "organized forgetting" orchestrated by communist regimes that left these countries with little common history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index
Notes English
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Subject Nationalism.
Post-communism.
History -- Philosophy.
nationalism.
89.22 nationalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
History -- Philosophy
Nationalism
Post-communism
Nationalismus
Nationalisme.
Communisme.
Historisch besef.
Nationenbildung -- Slowakei.
Nationalismus -- Slowakei.
Kommunismus -- Auswirkung -- Tschechoslowakei.
Nationalismus -- Slowakei -- Geschichte -- 1900-1999.
Élite (sciences sociales) -- Slovaquie.
Nationalisme -- Slovaquie -- 1990- ...
Postcommunisme.
Histoire -- Philosophie.
Slowakei
Tschechoslowakei -- Politik -- Geschichte 1945-1992.
Slowakei -- Tschechische Republik.
Tschechische Republik -- Slowakei.
Slowakei -- Nationalismus -- Geschichte -- 1900-1999.
Slovaquie -- Histoire -- Philosophie.
Slovaquie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1993- ...
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822390671
0822390671
1283035693
9781283035699
9786613035691
6613035696