The Bloody Flag

by Pilon, Juliana Geran

• ISBN13: 9781560000624
• ISBN10: 1560000627
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-08-01
• Publisher: Transaction Pub

Summary

The Bloody Flag uses Romania as a model for examining the unifying and destructive capacities of nationalist passions in a period of historical transition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Some Basic Philosophical Categories
Cultural Aspects of a Nation's Experience	p. 7
Political Aspects of National Integrity	p. 14
Metaphysical Definitions of Ethnicity	p. 21
Aggression and Struggle for Power Disguised as Nationalism	p. 25
The East-Central European Context: Post-Communist Trauma
The Marxist-Socialist Legacy	p. 31
The Historic Legacy of Nationalism in East-Central Europe	p. 38
Spotlight on Romania
The Pre-Communist Tradition	p. 47
Communism with a Nationalist Face	p. 60
Post-Ceausist Manipulations	p. 66
Uneasy Options for the Opposition	p. 70
Overcoming the Spirit of Miorita	p. 73
Some Notes on Harmony
Anglo-American Footnotes	p. 75
Toward an East-Central European Classical Liberalism	p. 82
Afterword: Subterranean Societies	p. 91
Appendix: The Copenhagen Document	p. 97
Notes	p. 107
Index	p. 119
About the Author	p. 125
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