Eastern Europe has become an ideological battleground since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with liberals and authoritarians struggling to seize the ground lost by Marxism. In Fantasies of Salvation, Vladimir Tismaneanu traces the intellectual history of this struggle and warns that authoritarian nationalists pose a serious threat to democratic forces.
Conferinţele „Monica Lovinescu” din cadrul departamentului „Ideologie şi Propagandă” al noului institut, IICCMER (Institutul de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului şi Memoria Exilului Românesc) presupun un set de 20 de conferinţe anuale, conferinţe care se vor desfăşura săptămânal, câteva luni pe an, la noul sediu IICCMER, strada Alecu Russo, nr. 13-19, din Bucureşti, care dispune de [...]
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The role of ideas in the demise of Communist regimes can never be stressed too much. These “ideocratic partocracies”, in Martin Malia’s phrase, could not outlive the death of their utopian underpinnings. Societies in East Central Europe, the Soviet Union and elsewhere had been rebuilt according to ideological blueprints: the command economy, the New Man, universal surveillance over mind and body. By the 1980s, the time of the true believers had passed, even if many retained their Party cards. It was the revolt, and the revival, of the mind that killed the Communist Leviathan, not just among dissidents, but also among disenchanted Communist intellectuals, who had become increasingly convinced of the system’s decrepitude.
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The role of ideas in the demise of Communist regimes can never be stressed too much. These “ideocratic partocracies”, in Martin Malia’s phrase, could not outlive the death of their utopian underpinnings. Societies in East Central Europe, the Soviet Union and elsewhere had been rebuilt according to ideological blueprints: the command economy, the New Man, universal surveillance over mind and body. By the 1980s, the time of the true believers had passed, even if many retained their Party cards. It was the revolt, and the revival, of the mind that killed the Communist Leviathan, not just among dissidents, but also among disenchanted Communist intellectuals, who had become increasingly convinced of the system’s decrepitude.