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The Unbearable Lightness of Being an Eastern European Intellectual - John Keane: Vaclav Havel. A Political Tragedy in Six Acts, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, 532 pp., hardback £25.00. - Vladimir Tismaneanu: Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998, 216 pp., $31.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2008

Lavinia Stan
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Government and Opposition , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 265 - 271
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1 Keane, John, Tom Paine: A Political Life, Boston, Little, Brown, 1995 Google Scholar, and Keane, John (ed.), The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central and Eastern Europe, London, Hutchinson, 1985.Google Scholar

2 Bill Lomax, ‘The Inegalitarian Nature of Hungary’s Intellectual Political Culture’, and Andras Korosenyi, ‘Intellectuals and Democracy: The Political Thinking of Intellectuals’, in Andras Bozoki (ed.), Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe, Budapest, Central European University Press, 1999, pp. 167–84 and 227–44, respectively.

3 Foley, Michael and Edwards, Bob, ‘The Paradox of Civil Society’, Journal of Democracy, 7:3, 1996, pp. 38–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See Irina Culic, ‘The Strategies of Intellectuals: Romania under Communist Rule in Comparative Perspective’, in Andras Bozoki (ed.), Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe, op. cit.