Politics without a Past: The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism

Author/Contributor(s):	Cohen, Shari J
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	11/22/1999
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Argues that the rise to power of quasi-nationalist demagogues in many post-communist countries is the result of "organized forgetting" orchestrated by communist regimes that left these countries with little common history.