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Between Utopia and Disillusionment : A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe / Henri Vogt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Contemporary European History ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2004]Copyright date: 2004Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800735125
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 943.009049 22/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • HN420.3.Z9 P88 2005
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Narratives of the Revolutions -- Chapter 2 Revolution as a Utopia -- Chapter 3 Utopia Not Yet Fulfilled: Ambivalence after the Revolutions -- Chapter 4 Utopia Not Fulfilled: Disillusionment -- Chapter 5 Individualism as a Utopia -- Chapter 6 Collective Utopias: From National Independence to Europe -- Conclusion: Politics between Utopia and Disillusionment -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Scholarly interpretations of the collapse of communism and developments thereafter have tended to be primarily concerned with people’s need to rid themselves of the communist system, of their past. The expectations, dreams, and hopes that ordinary Eastern Europeans had when they took to the streets in 1989, and have had ever since, have therefore been overlooked – and our understanding of the changes in post-communist Europe has remained incomplete. Focusing primarily on five key areas, such as the heritage of 1989 revolutions, ambivalence, disillusionment, individualism, and collective identities, this book explores the expectations and goals that ordinary Eastern Europeans had during the 1989 revolutions and the decade thereafter, and also the problems and disappointments they encountered in the course of the transformation. The analysis is based on extensive interviews with university students and young intellectuals in the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany and Estonia in the 1990s, which in themselves have considerable value as historical documents.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Narratives of the Revolutions -- Chapter 2 Revolution as a Utopia -- Chapter 3 Utopia Not Yet Fulfilled: Ambivalence after the Revolutions -- Chapter 4 Utopia Not Fulfilled: Disillusionment -- Chapter 5 Individualism as a Utopia -- Chapter 6 Collective Utopias: From National Independence to Europe -- Conclusion: Politics between Utopia and Disillusionment -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Scholarly interpretations of the collapse of communism and developments thereafter have tended to be primarily concerned with people’s need to rid themselves of the communist system, of their past. The expectations, dreams, and hopes that ordinary Eastern Europeans had when they took to the streets in 1989, and have had ever since, have therefore been overlooked – and our understanding of the changes in post-communist Europe has remained incomplete. Focusing primarily on five key areas, such as the heritage of 1989 revolutions, ambivalence, disillusionment, individualism, and collective identities, this book explores the expectations and goals that ordinary Eastern Europeans had during the 1989 revolutions and the decade thereafter, and also the problems and disappointments they encountered in the course of the transformation. The analysis is based on extensive interviews with university students and young intellectuals in the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany and Estonia in the 1990s, which in themselves have considerable value as historical documents.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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