Comunism and the emergence of democracy/
Harald Wydra
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- ix, 314 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
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Communism Former communist countries Democratization