Communism and the emergence of democracy共产主义和民主运动的兴起
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作者: Harald Wydra著
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出版时间: 2007-3-1字数:版次: 1页数: 314印刷时间: 2007/03/01开本: 16开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780521851695包装: 精装编辑推荐
作者介绍:Harald Wydra
Harald Wydra is University Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of Continuities in Poland's Permanent Transition (2001).
内容简介
Before democracy becomes an institutionalized form of political authority, the rupture with authoritarian forms of power causes deep uncertainty about power and outcomes. This book connects the study of democratization in eastern Europe and Russia to the emergence and crisis of communism. Wydra argues that the communist past is not simply a legacy but needs to be seen as a social organism in gestation, where critical events produce new expectations, memories, and symbols that influence meanings of democracy. By examining a series of pivotal historical events, he shows that democratization is not just a matter of institutional design, but rather a matter of consciousness and leadership under conditions of extreme and traumatic incivility. Rather than adopting the opposition between non-democratic and democratic, Wydra argues that the communist experience must be central to the study of the emergence and nature of democracy in (post-) communist countries.
目录
Acknowledgements
1 Communism and democracy—a problematisation
Part Ⅰ The experiential basis of communismand democracy
2 Revolutions,transitions,and uncertainty
3 The political symbolism of communism
4 Experiencing democratic transformations
Part Ⅱ Critical events and their symboHsations
5 The rise of Bolshevik power
6 The emergence of the Cold War
7 The articulation of dissidence
8 The collapse of communism
Part Ⅲ Democracy as a process of meaning-formation
9 The power of memory
10 The future that failed
11 Democracy as a civilising process
Index