Title: Fantasies of salvation
First published: 1998
Description: 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.

A leading observer of the often baffling world of post-Communist Europe, Tismaneanu shows that extreme nationalistic and authoritarian thought has been influential in Eastern Europe for much of this century, while liberalism has only shallow historical roots. Despite democratic successes in places such as the Czech Republic and Poland, he argues, it would be a mistake for the West to assume that liberalism will always triumph.
Subjects: Ideology, Post-communism, Politics and government, Europe, eastern, politics and government, Post-communism, europe, eastern, Post-communism, former soviet republics, Former soviet republics, politics and government, Europe, eastern, politics and government, 1989-
Places: Eastern Europe, Former Soviet republics
Time periods: 1989-
LC classification: JA84.E92 T57 1998