Cultural Formations of Postcommunism: Emancipation, Transition, Nation, and War
University of Minnesota Press | 2002-08 | ISBN: 0816638578 | PDF | 400 Pages | 1.2 MB
"Transition" is the name typically given to the time of radical change following the fall of communism, connoting a shift from planned to market economy, from dictatorship to democracy. Transition is also, in Michael Kennedy's analysis, a culture in its own right-with its own contentions, repressions, and unrealized potentials. By elaborating transition as a culture of power and viewing it in its complex relation to emancipation, nationalism, and war, Kennedy's book clarifies the transformations of postcommunism as well as, more generally, the ways in which culture articulates social change.
