Between Past and Future: The Revolution of 1989 and Their Aftermath

427 Pages·2000·23.3 MB·English

by  Sorin Antohi

Between Past and Future
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Between Past and
Future
The Revolutions of 1989
and Their Aftermath
Edited by
SORIN ANTOHI
and
VLADIMIR TISMANEANU
• C EU P R E SS
Central European University Press
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Printed in Hungary by Akaprint
To all those who, living in dark times,
believed in freedom and made it possible
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Table of Contents
List of Tables ix
Preface and Acknowledgements xi
I Meanings of 1989: Present Significance of the Past
1 Between Past and Future, Agnes Heller 3
2 On Two Models of Exit from Communism: Central Europe and
the Balkans, Jacques Rupnik 14
3 1989 as Rebirth, KarolSoltan 25
4 1989 and the Future of Democracy, Jeffrey C. Isaac 39
5 Habits of the Mind: Europe's Post-1989 Symbolic Geographies,
SorinAntohi 61
II Winners and Losers in the Great Transformation
6 Independence Reborn and the Demons of the Velvet Revolution,
Adam Michnik 81
7 Between Idealism and Realism: Reflections on the Political
Landscape of Postcommunism, Martin PalouS 100
8 Postsocialisms, Valerie Bunce 122
9 Fighting for the Public Sphere: Democratic Intellectuals under
Postcommunism, Vladimir Tismaneanu 153
HI Vulnerabilities of the New Democracies
10 Privatization as Transforming Persons, Katherine Verdery 175
11 Gendering Postsocialism: Reproduction as Politics in East Central
Europe, Gail Kligman and Susan Gal 198
12 The Morals of Transition: Decline of Public Interest and
Runaway Reforms in Eastern Europe, Kazimierz Z. Poznanski 216
13 Counterrevolution, Istvan Rev 247
14 The Handshake Tradition: A Decade of Consensus Politics Bears
Liberal Fruit in Hungary—But What Next?, Miklos Haraszti 272
15 Politics and Freedom, Ivan Vejvoda 280
IV The New Europe: Prospects for Cooperation and Conflict
16 Electocracies and the Hobbesian Fishbowl of Postcommunist
Politics, Karen Dawisha 291
17 The Europe Agreements and Transition: Unique Returns from
Integrating into the European Union, Bartlomiej Kaminski 306
18 Nationalism in Postcommunist Russia: From Resignation
to Anger, Ilya Prize! 332
19 Chinese Bridges to Postsocialist Europe, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom 357
20 Mickiewicz and the Question of Sacred Territory,
Irena Grudzinska Gross 383
V Past, Present, Future
21 Conclusions, Timothy Garton Ash 395
Contributors 403
Name Index 405
List of Tables
Table 8.1 Economic Development and Economic Growth 126
Table 8.2 Economic Reform and Income Distribution 127
Table 8.3 Annual Growth of Real GDP 128
Table 8.4 Economic Reform and Economic Performance 129
Table 8.5 Freedom Rating 137
Table 17.1 Performance of Central and East European
Countries: Selected Characteristics 322
Table 17.2 Exports of First- Wave Negotiators to the EU, Shares in
Total (%), 1992-97 325