| Author (Person) | Burgess, Adam |
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| Publisher | Pluto Press |
| Publication Date | 1997 |
| ISBN | 0-7453-1262-4 (Hbk) |
| Content Type | Textbook | Monograph |
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This book is about the perception of Eastern and Central Europe in the West, and the impact that the West has had in shaping, or as the author perceives it, 'misshaping' the region. The author challenges the Western understanding of, and impact on, Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century, and scrutinises the Western obsessions with history, ethnicity, intolerance and the need for 'civil society'. He concludes that the West, anxious to bolster its own flagging moral authority over the East in the quest for a post-Cold War 'other', has not itself 'failed' Eastern Europe. Rather it has created failure, dismissing the consequences as the product of an 'intrinsic backwardness' inherent in the East. Burgess, Adam |
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| Countries / Regions | Eastern Europe |
