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<html><body><h1>Politics Without a Past</h1>The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism<hr noshade size="1">By Shari J. Cohen</hr><h4>Duke University Press</h4> ISBN: 0-8223-2399-0 <hr noshade size='1'></hr><!-TOC-><h3>Contents</h3><pre>Preface and Acknowledgments...........................................................viiChronology............................................................................xi1: The Legacy of Two Totalitarianisms.................................................12: Historical Consciousness, Family Stories, and Nationalism..........................253: Weak Nationalism in Slovakia: The Precommunist Period..............................474: Islands of History: The Democrats and Nationalists.................................575: Organized Forgetting: Elites with No History.......................................856: Nationalism without Nationalists? Democracy without Democrats?.....................1197: Politics in a Hall of Mirrors......................................................1578: Conclusion.........................................................................177Appendix: List of Interviews..........................................................183Notes.................................................................................187Bibliography..........................................................................247Index.................................................................................263</pre> </pre><blockquote><hr noshade size='1'>Excerpted from Politics Without a Pastby Shari J. Cohen Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.<hr noshade size='1'></blockquote></body></html>

Argues that an ideological vacuum has fuelled the problems throughout postcommunist Europe and the former Soviet Union. Drawing upon field research, this book aims to paint a picture of post-communist political life in which ideological labels are meaningless and exchangeable at will, and political parties appear and disappear regularly.

Politics without a past : the absence of history in post-communist nationalism