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Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state
socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda
or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist
intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to
unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking under
socialism, the volume examines Eastern Europe and Russian histories
of intellectual movements inspired - negatively as well as
positively - by Communist arguments and dogmas. Through an
interdisciplinary dialogue, the collection demonstrates how various
bodies of theoretical knowledge (philosophical, social, political,
aesthetic, even theological) were used not only to justify dominant
political views, but also to frame oppositional and nonofficial
discourses and practices. The examination of the underlying
structures of Communism as an intellectual project provides
convincing evidence for questioning a dominant approach that
routinely frames the post-Communist intellectual development as a
"revival" or, at least, as a "return" of the repressed intellectual
traditions. As the book shows, the logic of a radical break,
suggested by this approach, is in contradiction with historical
evidence: a significant number of philosophical, theoretical and
ideological debates in post-Communist world are in fact the logical
continuation of intellectual conversations and confrontations
initiated long before 1989.
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