Anti-Communism of the Future: Czech Post-Dissident Neoconservatives in Post-Communist Transformation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: Towards an Intellectual History of Post-Socialism 1
4. Liberalism: Dissident Illusions and Disillusions
5. Five Faces of Post-Dissident Hungarian Liberalism: A Study in Agendas, Concepts, and Ambiguities 37
6. “Totalitarianism” and the Limits of Polish Dissident Political Thought: Late Socialism and After 73
7. Václav Havel, His Idea of Civil Society, and the Czech Liberal Tradition 109
8. The (Re-)Emergence of Constitutionalism in East Central Europe 139
9. Conservativism: A Counter-Revolution?
10. Anti-Communism of the Future: Czech Post-Dissident Neoconservatives in Post-Communist Transformation 169
11. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience: Polish Conservatism 1979–2011 201
12. The Abortion of a “Conservative” Constitution-Making: A Discourse Analysis of the 1994–1998 Failed Hungarian Constitution-making Enterprise 237
13. Populism: Endemic Pasts and Global Effects
14. Syndrome or Symptom: Populism and Democratic Malaise in Post-Communist Romania 257
15. The Illusion of Inclusion: Configurations of Populism in Hungary 275
16. The Political Lives of Dead Populists in Post-socialist Slovakia 313
17. The Left: Between Communist Legacy and Neoliberal Challenge
18. Non-Post-Communist Left in Hungary after 1989: Diverging Paths of Leftist Criticism, Civil Activism, and Radicalizing Constituency 333
19. The Architecture of Revival: Left-wing Ideas and Politics in Poland after 2002 371
20. The Formation of the Czech Post-Communist Intellectual Left: Twenty Years of Seeking an Identity 397
21. Feminist Criticism of the “New Democracies” in Serbia and Croatia in the First Half of the 1990s 431
22. Politics of History: Nations, Wars, Revolutions
23. 1989 After 1989: Remembering the End of Communism in East-Central Europe 461
24. A Fate for a Nation: Concepts of History and the Nation in Hungarian Politics, 1989–2010 505
25. From “Husakism” to “Mečiarism”: The National Identity-Building Discourse of the Slovak Left-wing Intellectuals in 1990s Slovakia 525
26. Post-Communist Europe: On the Path to a Regional Regime of Remembrance? 553
27. List of Contributors 587
28. Index 591