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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Shari J Cohen |
ISBN: | 0822323990 9780822323990 0822323788 9780822323785 9780822390671 0822390671 |
OCLC Number: | 41115169 |
Description: | xiii, 281 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. The Legacy of Two Totalitarianisms -- 2. Historical Consciousness, Family Stories, and Nationalism -- 3. Weak Nationalism in Slovakia: The Precommunist Period -- 4. Islands of History: The Democrats and Nationalists -- 5. Organized Forgetting: Elites with No History -- 6. Nationalism without Nationalists? Democracy without Democrats? -- 7. Politics in a Hall of Mirrors -- 8. Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Shari J. Cohen. |
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"A pioneering study. This book should be required reading for journalists and diplomats who deal with postcommunist Europe."-James Felak, University of Washington "Cohen's deft and ingenious examination of the historical, political, biographical, and moral features of Slovakia's present and recent past, in particular the peculiar and powerful quality and impact of the Leninist legacy, contributes substantially to our grasp of this area's novel political sociology."-Ken Jowitt, University of California, Berkeley Read more...

