Thinking Through Transition : Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts, and Intellectual History in East Central Europe After 1989.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Towards an Intellectual History of Post-Socialism -- Liberalism: Dissident Illusions and Disillusions -- Five Faces of Post-Dissident Hungarian Liberalism: A Study in Agendas, Concepts, and Ambiguities -- "Totalitarianism" and the Limits of Polish Dissident Political Thought: Late Socialism and After -- Václav Havel, His Idea of Civil Society, and the Czech Liberal Tradition -- The (Re-)Emergence of Constitutionalism in East-Central Europe -- Conservatism: A Counter-Revolution? -- Anti-Communism of the Future: Czech Post-Dissident Neoconservatives in Post-Communist Transformation -- Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience: Polish Conservatism 1979-2011 -- The Abortion of a "Conservative" Constitution-Making: A Discourse Analysis of the 1994-1998 Failed Hungarian Constitution-making Enterprise -- Populism: Endemic Pasts and Global Effects -- Syndrome or Symptom: Populism and Democratic Malaise in Post-Communist Romania -- The Illusion of Inclusion: Configurations of Populism in Hungary -- The Political Lives of Dead Populists in Post-Socialist Slovakia -- The Left: Between Communist Legacy and NeoliberalChallenge -- Non-Post-Communist Left in Hungary after 1989: Diverging Paths of Leftist Criticism, Civil Activism, and Radicalizing Constituency -- The Architecture of Revival: Left-wing Ideas and Politics in Poland after 2002 -- The Formation of the Czech Post-Communist Intellectual Left: Twenty Years of Seeking an Identity -- Feminist Criticism of the "New Democracies" in Serbia and Croatia in the First Half of the 1990s -- Politics of History: Nations, Wars, Revolutions -- 1989 After 1989: Remembering the End of Communism in East-Central Europe -- A Fate for a Nation: Concepts of History and the Nation in Hungarian Politics, 1989-2010.

From "Husakism" to "Mečiarism": The National Identity-Building Discourse of the Slovak Left-wing Intellectuals in 1990s Slovakia -- Post-Communist Europe: On the Path to a Regional Regime of Remembrance? -- List of Contributors -- Index -- back cover.

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