Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal

Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal
Author: Leonidas Donskis
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9042017279

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Troubled Identity and the Modern World

Troubled Identity and the Modern World
Author: L. Donskis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-05-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230621732

The book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms 'the troubled identity', that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. Through an identity-building-and-shifting process, argues Donskis, we can move from political majority to cultural minority, or the other way around.

Central and Eastern Europe After Transition

Central and Eastern Europe After Transition
Author: Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317168992

How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe? Central and Eastern Europe After Transition defines and examines new autonomous differences adopted at the state and the supranational level in the post-transitional phase of the post-Communist area, and considers their impact on constitutions, democracy and legal culture. With representative contributions from older and newer EU members, the book provides a broad set of cultural points for reference. Its comparative and interdisciplinary approach includes a useful selection of bibliographical resources specifically devoted to the Central Eastern European countries' transitions.

Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv

Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv
Author: Eleonora Narvselius
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-04-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0739164708

This study brings into focus the issue of reproduction and transformation of cultural authority in the so-called post-Soviet context. Being anchored to sociological theories on intellectual autonomy and empowerment through narrativization, it approaches daily practices, situations and popular narratives which bring insight into everyday concerns and motivations of the educated Western Ukrainians.

Remigration to Post-Socialist Europe

Remigration to Post-Socialist Europe
Author: Caroline Hornstein Tomic
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2018
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3643910258

Returning migrants have been involved in post-socialist transformation processes all across Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Engaged in politics, the economy, science and education, arts and civil society, return migrants have often exerted crucial influence on state and nation-building processes and on social and cultural transformations. However, remigration not only comprises stories of achievements, but equally those of failed integration, marginalization, non-participation and lost potential - these are mostly stories untold. The contributions to this volume shed light on processes of return migration to various Eastern and Southeastern European countries from multidisciplinary perspectives. Particular attention is paid to anthropological approaches that aim to understand the complexities of return migration from individual perspectives.

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
Author: Balázs Trencsenyi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192565087

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and revisit some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought, and modernity as such. The present volume is the final part of the project, following Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century', and Volume II, Part I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' (1918-1968) (OUP, 2018). Its starting point is the defeat of the vision of 'socialism with a human face' in 1968 and the political discourses produced by the various 'consolidation' or 'normalization' regimes. It continues with mapping the exile communities' and domestic dissidents' critical engagement with the local democratic and anti-democratic traditions as well as with global trends. Rather than achieving the coveted 'end of history', however, the liberal democratic order created in East Central Europe after 1989 became increasingly contested from left and right alike. Thus, instead of a comfortable conclusion pointing to the European integration of most of these countries, the book closes with a reflection on the fragility of democracy in this part of the world and beyond.

Transformations in Central Europe Between 1989 and 2012

Transformations in Central Europe Between 1989 and 2012
Author: Tomas Kavaliauskas
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 073917410X

This book is an in-depth study of the transformations in Central Europe in the years since the fall of Communism. In a comparative analysis of geopolitical, ethical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts, this essential text investigates the post-communist countries.

Remembrance, History, and Justice

Remembrance, History, and Justice
Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 963386092X

The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, creating collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that have emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts, such as Germany, Romania, Russia and others.

The Making of Modern Lithuania

The Making of Modern Lithuania
Author: Tomas Balkelis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2009-06-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134051131

This book argues that – contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric – Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence of the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth century to the birth of an independent state in 1918. The book brings into sharp focus those aspects of the history of Lithuania that earlier commentators had not systematically explored: it shows how, in this period, the nascent political elite fashioned its own and the emerging nation’s identity. Moreover, factors such as the elite’s social isolation, educational experience, marital strategies and narrowly based, fragmented and uncoordinated political activities were crucial factors in shaping identity and nation-building. It demonstrates how the elite was often in conflict with the peasantry, the religious establishment and other ethnic groups, and how critical considerations such as class, religion, displacement and ethnicity – rather than national ideology – were. The book’s conclusion that Lithuanian nationalism is a construct emerging from modern social forces is highly significant for understanding nationalism and contemporary political developments in Eastern Europe more generally.