Communism and the emergence of democracy /
"Before democracy becomes an institutionalised form of political authority, the rupture with authoritarian forms of power causes deep uncertainty about power and outcomes. This book connects the study of democratisation in eastern Europe and Russia to the emergence and crisis of communism. Wydr...
| Основен автор: | Wydra, Harald, 1965- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Съдържание:
- Communism and democracy-a problematisation
- pt. I. The experiential basis of communism and democracy
- Revolutions, transitions, and uncertainty
- The political symbolism of communism
- Experiencing democratic transformations
- pt. II. Critical events and their symbolisations
- The rise of Bolshevik power
- The emergence of the Cold War
- The articulation of dissidence
- The collapse of communism
- pt. III. Democracy as a process of meaning-formation
- The power of memory
- The future that failed
- Democracy as a civilising process.