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Narratives Unbound: Historical Studies in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Narratives Unbound: Historical Studies in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Antohi, Sorin
Apor, Péter
Trencsényi, Balázs

Hardcover

Series: Pasts Incorporated: Studies in the Humanities - Ceu Press, Book 5

Eastern European HistoryRussian HistorySocial Movements

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ISBN10: 9637326855
ISBN13: 9789637326851
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: Jul 15 2007
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.35 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

The first work that covers the post-Communist development of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. A uniquely critical and qualitative analysis from a comparative and critical perspective, written by scholars from the region itself. Focusing on the first post-Communist decade, 1989-1999, the book offers a longer-term perspective that includes the immediate 'prehistory' of that momentous decade as well as its 'posthistoire'. The authors capture the spirit of 1989, that heady mix of elation, surprise, determination, and hope: l'ivresse du possible. This was the paradoxical beginning of Eastern European post-Communism: ushered in by 'anti-Utopian' revolutions, and slowly finding its course towards a bureaucratic, imitative, challenging, and anachronistic restoration of a capitalism that had changed almost beyond recognition when it had mutated into the negative double of Communism. Each individual chapter has numerous and detailed notes and references.

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