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Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe.(Review)

American Political Science Review,  March, 1999  by Cirtautas, Arista Maria

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By Vladimir Tismaneanu. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 216p. $29.95.

Arista Maria Cirtautas, University of Virginia

Fantasies of Salvation well conveys the current mood of concern among East European intellectuals as they survey the political landscape that has been taking shape in their region since 1989. In the eyes of former dissidents such as Poland's Adam Michnik, the problems of democratic consolidation, while not yet insurmountable, are definitely mounting as expressions of ethnic nationalism, populism, and intolerance threaten to undermine the civic ...

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