Farewell to the Left
Farewell to the Left
Author(s): Gáspár Miklós TamásSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Political economy, Economic development, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Eastern Europe; bolshevism; Stalinism; socialism; Communism; Soviet Union; democracy; capitalism; liberalism;
Summary/Abstract: Eastern Europe can boast of only one political patent of international and historic grandeur: bolshevism. We know that even the Russians regard it as something imported-but we are willing to regard everything we do not like as an import. However, what we like the least belongs to us the most. We do not have intense feelings about the hell of fascism, and yet it happens to be our intellectual property more than many other things. We consider it alien, but we are j ust passing the buck here as usual, though in an intellectual and not moral sense. It is true that the Communist party dictatorship was brought to the small East European countries by the victorious troops of Stalin, but we should admit that we were ready for it. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 05/1991
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 92-112
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English
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