Kelet-Európa a kiábrándulás idején
Eastern Europa at the Time of Disappointment

Summary/Abstract: The concluding essay by Claude Karnoouh is also a translation of a chapter of his book. This essay does not focus on the issue of representation, although it definitely rejects the dominant East-West dichotomy as used in present day social and political analysis. As a way out of East-West dichotomy Karnoouh argues that the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe was not due to mismanagement by the elite but it failed in the moralising logic as opposed to the hidden history of „totalizing” capitalism, which knew no such moral and socio-political constraints. This makes Eastern European societies similar to the Third World ”uprooted” much earlier by Western capitalism.

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