Democracy and myth in Russia and Eastern Europe /
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London, England :
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : democracy in Eastern Europe - myth and reality / Harald Wydra
- 1. Mythology and the trickster : interpreting communism / Agnes Horvath
- 2. The non-being of communism and myths of democratisation / Arpad Szakolczai
- 3. The power of second reality : communist myths and representations of democracy / Harald Wydra
- 4. 'Mazepa' as a symbolic figure of Ukrainian autonomy / Thomas Grob
- 5. Misoteutonic myths : lopping noses in Hussite nationalism and love's sweet cure / Robert B. Pynsent
- 6. The myth of the dialogue of myths : Russia and Europe / Walter Koschmal
- 7. Myths and democratic attitudes in Poland and Russia : an intermedial comparison / Alexander Wöll
- 8. Contested traditions? : the usage of three national holidays in contemporary Hungary / Heino Nyyssönen
- 9. The paradox of infra-liberalism : towards a genealogy of 'managed democracy' in Putin's Russia / Sergei Prozorov
- 10. Myth and democratic identity in Putin's Russia / Richard Sakwa.