Democracy and myth in Russia and Eastern Europe
By: edited by Alexander Woll and Harald Wydra.
Contributors: Woll, Alexander.; Wydra, Harald.
Series: BASEES / Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon, England; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415428224
Subjects: Democracy -- Europe, Eastern; Democracy -- Russia (Federation); Myth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : democracy and myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (introduction) / Harald Wydra; title: Mythology and the trickster : interpreting communism / Agnes Horvath; title: The non-being of communism and myths of democratisation / Arpad Szakolczai; title: The power of second reality : communist myths and representations of democracy / Harald Wydra; title: "Mazepa" as a symbolic figure of Ukrainian autonomy / Thomas Grob; title: Misoteutonic myths : lopping noses in Hussite nationalism and love's sweet cure / Robert Pynsent; title: The myth of the dialogue of myths : Russia and Europe / Walter Koschmal; title: Myths and democratic attitudes in Poland and Russia : an intermedial comparison / Alexander Woll; title: Contested traditions? the democratic uses of three national holidays in contemporary Hungary / Heino Nyyssnen; title: The paradox of infra-liberalism : towards a genealogy of "managed democracy" in Putin's Russia / Sergei Prozorov; title: Myth and democratic identity in Putin's Russia / Richard Sakwa.