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Journal of Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 128-135

  Tismaneanu, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Presidential Advisory Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship   (Romania)

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EID: 77249084645     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (21)

1. For the impact of 1989 on the rethinking of liberalism's agenda, see for example Jerzy Szacki, Liberalism After Communism (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1995).
2. On the causes and implications of the revolutions, see Vladimir Tismaneanu, "The Revolutions of 1989: Causes, Meanings, Consequences," in "Revisiting 1989: Causes, Course and Consequences," ed. Amir Weiner and John Connelly, special issue, Contemporary European History 18 (August 2009): 271-288
3. Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (London: Penguin Books, 2005), 658.
4. See Vladimir Tismaneanu, Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (New York: Free Press, 1992; paperback with new epilogue, 1993).
5. Vladimir Tismaneanu, Fantasies of Salvation: Nationalism, Democracy, and Myth in Postcommunist Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
6. For postcommunist politics, see Padraic Kenney, The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe since 1989 (London: Zed Books, 2006).
7. Ralf Dahrendorf, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe (New York: Times Books, 1990), 60-111,
8. and After 1989: Morals, Revolution, and Civil Society (New York: St. Martin's, 1997), 56.
9. Judt, Postwar, 793.
10. Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller has identified similar illiberal trends in Hungary.
11. Ralf Dahrendorf, Reflections, 149.
12. In Algemeen Dagblad (Rotterdam), 1 November 1997, in Nanci Adler, "In Search of Identity: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Recreation of Russia," in Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Carmen González- Enríquez, and Paloma Aguilar, eds., The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 289.
13. Tony Judt, "The Past Is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Post-War Europe" in Jan-Werner Müller, ed., Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 173.
14. Joachim Gauck, "Dealing with the STASI Past," Daedalus 123 (Winter 1994): 282-283
15. Charles Villa-Vicencio and Erik Doxtader, eds., Pieces of the Puzzle: Keywords on Reconciliation and Transitional Justice (Cape Town: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, 2005), 34-38.
16. Jan-Werner Müller, Constitutional Patriotism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), 97-119.
17. Gesine Schwan, Politics and Guilt: The Destructive Power of Silence, trans. Thomas Dunlap (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 54-134.
18. Herman Lübbe first employed this term in 1983 in reference to West Germany's post-1945 transition to democracy; see Lübbe, "Der Nationalsozialismus im deutschen Nachkriegsbewußtsein," Historische Zeitschrift 236 (1983): 579-599
19. Tony Judt, Postwar, 831.
20. See http://praguedeclaration.org and "OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopts Vilnius Declaration," press release, 3 July 2009;
21. available at www.osce.org/item/38620 http://www.osce.org/item/38620. html. The Prague Declaration and the OSCE resolution are hardly singular. Other official pan-European or transatlantic statements have been made condemning the criminality of communism and Stalinism.