Author: Tismaneanu, Vladimir
Title: Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1998). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xi,216 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Preface: Why Eastern Europe and Why Care?; After Marx: The Return of Political Myth; Resurrecting Utopia: Ideology versus Mythology; The Leninist Debris, or Waiting for Perón; Vindictive & Messianic Mythologies: Post-Communist Nationalism & Populism; Scapegoating Fantasies:Fascism, Anti-Semitism, & Myth Making in East Central Europe; Is the Revolution Over? The Myth of Decommunization & the Quest for Political Justice; A Velvet Counterrevolution? Dissidents, Dreamers, & Realpolitik; The Mythological Construction of Reality: Political Complexity in a Post- Communist World.

Keywords: Political Ideology, East Central Europe, Nationalism, Post-Communism, Nationalist, Political History, Politics, National Myth,