| Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe Subjects: Ideology -- Europe Eastern; Ideology -- Former Soviet republics; Post-communism -- Europe Eastern; Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics; Europe Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989–; Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government; Eastern Europe has become an ideological battleground since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with liberals and authoritarians struggling to seize the ground lost by Marxism. In Fantasies of Salvation , Vladimir Tismaneanu traces the intellectual history of this struggle and warns that authoritarian nationalists pose a serious threat to democratic forces. Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free Press). |