Open AccessFreedom on the post-totalitarian horizon
Author(s) -
Agnieszka Matusiak,
Andrzej Polak,
Monika Wolting
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
miscellanea posttotalitariana wratislaviensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2353-8546
DOI - 10.19195/2353-8546.8.1
Subject(s) - emancipation , subordination (linguistics) , sketch , soviet union , communism , world war ii , dominance (genetics) , political science , identity (music) , sociology , political economy , aesthetics , law , philosophy , politics , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , algorithm , computer science , gene
The authors of this sketch are drawing a panorama of the potential interpretational aspects of understanding the category of freedom in the societies of the post-communist part of Europe. At the same time, they attempt to define the horizon for finding the answer to the identity-forming question that is key for this georegion, i.e. about the essence and the specificity of processes, phenomena and mechanisms of emancipation of culture and societies of post-totalitarian European countries from the legacy of World War II, and particularly its post-Yalta consequences which embedded the countries and nations of Central, East and South-East Europe in the sphere of imperial subordination of Soviet dominance for nearly another half a century.