The Leninist Debris or Waiting for Perón
The Leninist Debris or Waiting for Perón

Summary/Abstract: Left, right, center: all these notions have strange, and elusive meanings under postcommunism. Using interpretive Western paradigms would simply create false analogies and would explain little, if anything. Initially, the abuses committed in the name of the Marxist faith in the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe engendered apprehensions about any explicit socialist program. But the nostalgia, soon evident, for the benefits of the socialist welfare state has deepened and is widespread-a reason for the phenomenon of the "communists's comeback." It has become increasingly obvious that large numbers in all social strata resented communist ideology without detesting the state socialist illusions of security, protection, and stability. Yes, there was scarcity, but there was no unemployment, and there was also a feeling that the future was predictable within an immutable universe. [...]

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