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Aalborg University, Denmark

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This book presents a novel understanding of the break-up of communist hegemony in East Germany and Eastern Europe. Based on comparative case studies, it argues that identity politics is a particular invention of communist rule, producing a political citizen. Focusing upon identity politics helps us better to understand the longterm stability of communist hegemony, its sudden collapse, the difficulties of transforming communist societies to liberal democracies and the unexpected revival of ethnic, nationalist and cultural conflicts in post-communist Eastern Europe.

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Pages i-viii

Back Matter

Pages 187-204

Authors and Affiliations Aalborg University, Denmark

Feiwel Kupferberg

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FEIWEL KUPFERBERG is Associate Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, guest Lecturer at Moscow University, Visiting Scholar at the Berlin Institute of Social Studies, and Visiting Scholar at Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin. He is the author of The Paternalistic Spirit, and Creative Chaos in Project Work.

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