Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2007
Series: Book 33 of 149 - BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
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Examines democracy in Eastern Europe, focusing on the influence of literary and historical myths in communist Eastern Europe and Russia. This book shows how democracy takes into account cultural factors of shared consciousness whereby mythological constructions of reality become a force in the formation of political conceptions of authority. Editor(s): Woll, Alexander; Wydra, Harald. Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 9 black & white halftones, 1 blac. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFHF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 498. . 2007. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)
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- Routledge
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- 2007
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- 041542822X
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- 9780415428224
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- Book 33 of 149: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy. Working on the premise that democracy is not only an institutional arrangement but also a civilisational project, this book argues that mythical narratives help understanding the emergence of democracy without ‘democrats’. Examining different national traditions as well as pre-communist and communist narratives, myths are seen as politically fabricated ‘programmes of truth’ that form and sustain the political imagination. Appearing as cultural, literary, or historical resources, myths amount to ideology in narrative form, which actors use in political struggles for the sake of achieving social compliance and loyalty with the authority of new political forms. Drawing on a wide range of case studies including Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, this book argues that narratives about the past are not simply ‘legacies’ of former regimes but have actively shaped representations and meanings of democracy in the region. Taking different theoretical and methodological approaches, the power of myth is explored for issues such as leadership, collective identity-formation, literary representation of heroic figures, cultural symbolism in performative art as well as on the constitution of legitimacy and civic identity in post-communist democracies.
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About the Author
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).
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