TY - BOOK AU - Vogt,Henri AU - Vogt,Henri TI - Between Utopia and Disillusionment: A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe T2 - Studies in Contemporary European History SN - 9781800735125 AV - HN420.3.Z9 P88 2005 U1 - 943.009049 22/eng/20230216 PY - 2004///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Public opinion KW - Czech Republic KW - Estonia KW - Germany KW - Young adults KW - Interviews KW - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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in the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany and Estonia in the 1990s, which in themselves have considerable value as historical documents UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800735125?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800735125 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800735125/original ER -