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Cognitive Dissonances. Beyond Democracy: Totalitarianism?. The Modern(izing) State. The Party of Disorder.
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Cognitive Dissonances. Beyond Democracy: Totalitarianism?. The Modern(izing) State. The Party of Disorder.
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The political events in Eastern Europe during the year 1989 and the first part of 1990 do require some critical reexamination among leftist intellectuals. But these events should be seen in a broader setting of decisive changes within the modern world. In this paper I shall make a few sketchy remarks on some of the notions and perspectives which in my view are to be reconsidered, first related mainly to Eastern Europe, then seen in a broader scale.
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The world knows that communism in Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989, and that the USSR set out on a path that not only promises the end of socialism but threatens its very territorial integrity. But knowing this does not explain why it all happened. Nor are the implications of all these revolutionary events as clear as the immediate, short-run strategic effects that follow from the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. There are many ways of looking at the "Revolution of 1989".
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The established stereotypes of interpretation of the political process are about to lose validity after facing what happened in Eastern Europe during the last for years. Applied to this development, they give bizarre results. For the old Marxist, dogmatic Eastern Europe is obviously "moving to the right", if not suffering "counter-revolution". But how, in that case, could recent events mobilize such a mass of people, including those of underprivileged social strata? From the same dogmatic position, the rejection of "central planning" and introduction of "market economy" would mean rejection of "socialism" and "classless society". But how could one explain the fact that it was that type of "socialism" and that type of "classless society" which attracted, as a rule, the privileged strata it had created?
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Is the "Chechenization" of Chechnya truly good for Chechnya and for Russia?
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An interview with Tanja Miscevic, the head of the Serbian government Office for European Integration.
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Bosnians are thinking about the legacy of the Dayton peace accords and where to go next.
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Bosnia’s chief official for EU relations explains how the government plans to lead the country into the Brussels club.
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Why treating prisoners well may be a key to preventing an HIV/AIDS and TB disaster in Central Asia.
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A new armed group threatens violence if Kosovo does not become independent – but are they for real?
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Georgians may agree that outing KGB agents was a good idea in its day, but many argue that it’s too late now
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Skopje’s enthusiastic push for Macedonian language classes for Albanian first-graders leads to a schools boycott. Part one of a series. This is the first in a series of articles on the challenges to education in post-conflict societies.
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Rising frustration among Romani activists may help seed much-needed new ideas.
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TOL Talk: Author Jonathan Brent on plumbing the Soviet archives, negotiating the new Russia, and encountering the real Josef Stalin.
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Want lots of power but no responsibility? Run for president in the Balkans.
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Even the judge in charge of it has deep misgivings about Bosnia’s plan to prosecute thousands of war criminals.
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Despite Washington’s climbdown on missile defense, too much water may have passed down the Volga for a dramatic turnaround in U.S.-Russia relations to occur.
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Macedonian gay rights advocates see more politics than conviction behind proposed anti-bias legislation.
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As political bickering over Polish public TV reaches new heights, the station may be beyond saving.
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