Sweeping Lines
On the Historicisation of the Transition around 1989
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
In East Central and Eastern Europe, the revolutions of 1989 have unleashed a social transition that is strongly oriented on Western modernity. However, it does not express historical determination. Rather, this form of change feeds on the character of the East-West conflict as ideological and cultural debate over the interpretation of modernity.
(Osteuropa 2-3/2009, pp. 381–399)