Europe Thirty Years After 1989 : Transformations of Values, Memory, and Identity.

Intro -- Europe Thirty Years after 1989: Transformations of Values, Memory, and Identity -- Copyright -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Values, Memory, Identity -- 1 East-Central Europe Searching for (European) Values: How to Be More Than the "Proud Periphery"? -- 2 Thirty Years in Search for Identity in Central Europe -- 3 Conservative Assertiveness in Central and Eastern Europe: Case Studies from Poland and Hungary -- 4 Croatia after 1989: Memories of Socialism in Post-socialist Times -- 5 Types of Social Memory and the Subordination of Identities of Ethnic Minorities in Latvia -- Part 2: In Search of European Home and Hospitality -- 6 The Ideal of Absolute Hospitality and the Reality of Anti-migrant Fences -- 7 "A Home for Our Children": the Bulgarian (Dis)illusion with Democratic Society Thirty Years Later -- Part 3: The Role of Intellectuals and Dissidents -- 8 Envisioning Europe from the East: À la recherche du temps perdu with Václav Havel and Lennart Meri -- 9 The Rise of the Public Relations Man and the Decline of the Soviet "Intelligentsia" after 1989 -- 10 From Ideology of Culture to Cultural Critique: Kulturos barai Journal and the Changing Roles of Lithuanian Intellectuals (1989-2019) -- Part 4: Political Travelogues -- 11 From the Baltic Way to the #CatalanReferendum -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Europe Thirty Years After 1989 explores what happened in the former socialist countries during the last thirty years and the reasons behind these events. The authors examine how values, memory, and identity have been transforming these countries since the year 1989.

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