Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wöll, Alexander; Wydra, Harald

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores democracy and democratization in Eastern Europe, focusing on the influence of politically important literary and historical myths in pre-communist and communist Eastern Europe and Russia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134089079
• Artikelnr.: 38264294

Autorenporträt

Alexander Wöll teaches Slavonic Studies at the University of Regensburg, where he is working as Assistant Professor. He is the author of Doubles. Mirror-writing, stone monument and usurpation (1999) and Jakub Deml. Life and Work. A Study in Middle European Literature (2006). Harald Wydra teaches Politics at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of Continuities in Poland's Permanent Transition (2001) and Communism and the Emergence of Democracy (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe Harald
Wydra 2. Mythology and the Trickster: Interpreting Communism Agnes Horvath
3. The Non-Being of Communism and Myths of Democratisation Arpad Szakolczai
4. The Power of Second Reality: Communist Myths and Representations of
Democracy Harald Wydra 5. 'Mazepa' as a Symbolic Figure of Ukrainian
Autonomy Thomas Grob 6. Misoteutonic Myths: Lopping Noses in Hussite
Nationalism and Love's Sweet Cure Robert Pynsent 7. The Myth of the
Dialogue of Myths: Russia and Europe Walter Koschmal 8. Myths and
Democratic Attitudes in Poland and Russia: An Intermedial Comparison
Alexander Wöll 9. Contested Traditions? The Democratic Uses of Three
National Holidays in Contemporary Hungary Heino Nyyssönen 10. The Paradox
of Infra-Liberalism: Towards a Genealogy of 'Managed Democracy' in Putin's
Russia Sergei Prozorov 11. Myth and Democratic Identity in Putin's Russia
Richard Sakwa