A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe.Vol.II/II

• Authors' Note


• 11: Late State Socialism: Consolidation, Legitimization, and Reform from Above


• 11.1: The raison d'état of 'really existing socialism'


• 11.2: National communism: Liberalization or neo-Stalinism?


• 11.3: The dilemmas of perestroika reformism


• 12: Political Thought in Exile


• 12.1: Ideological, generational, and institutional cleavages


• 12.2: The intellectual battle with communism


• 13: Dissidents and Opposition Movements


• 13.1: The emergence of dissident discourses and subcultures


• 13.2: Dialogue and empowerment


• 13.3: The identity politics of the dissidents


• 13.4: Toward a self-limiting revolution


• PART III: Farewell to Modernity? Thinking Politics After the' End of History'


• 14: Velvet Revolutions and the Thorny Paths of Transition


• 14.1: Visions of democratic transformation


• 14.2: The ambiguities of the 'liberal consensus'


• 14.3: Coming to terms with the past


• 14.4: Church, religion, and democracy


• 15: 'Rebuilding the Boat on the Open Sea'


• 15.1: The dilemmas of state-building and constitutional reforms


• 15.2: The specter of ethnopopulism


• 15.3: Modes of coexistence


• 16: In Search of a New Ideology


• 16.1: The 'culture wars' of the 2000s


• 16.2: Radicalizing democracy


• 16.3: Centers and peripheries

Balázs Trencsényi is Professor in the Department of History, Central European University Budapest. His research focuses on the comparative history of political thought in East Central Europe and the history of historiography. He is Co-Director of Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies at CEU and Editor of the periodical East Central Europe (Brill). His publications include A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century' (with Maciej Janowski, Monika Baar, Maria Falina, and Michal Kopecek, OUP, 2016), The Politics of 'National Character': A Study in Interwar East European Thought (Routledge, 2012), Whose Love of Which Country?: Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe (Brill, 2010), and Hungary and Romania beyond National Narratives: Comparisons and Entanglements (Peter Lang, 2013).



Michal Kopecek is Head of the Ideas and Concepts Department at the Institute of Contemporary History in Prague, and Co-Director of Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. His publications include A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century' (with Balázs Trencsényi, Maciej Janowski, Monika Baar, Maria Falina, OUP, 2016), and Quest for the Revolution's Lost Meaning: Origins of the Marxist Revisionism in Central Europe, 1953-1960 (forthcoming Brill, 2018).

Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic is a PhD candidate at the program in Comparative History of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe at the Central European University, Budapest. His main fields of interest include intellectual history, nationalism, and history of political thought, with a focus on European peripheries and semi-peripheries. He co-authored a volume on modern radical ideologies ( Utopije demokracije, ZNK Masovna, 2005), and edited a volume on humanism in contemporary social and

[the reader] will receive something like a universal formula encompassing the history of the region's political thought from the eighteenth century until the present ... The merit of this book is that it has introduced -- hopefully for good -- a whole series of previously-missing links into international academic discourse ... it is really worthwhile to read this weighty work. Maciej Górny, Acta Poloniae Historica