| Preface: Why Eastern Europe and Why Care? | |
| Introduction: After Marx: The Return of Political Myth | 3 |
| 1 | Resurrecting Utopia: Ideology versus Mythology | 23 |
| 2 | The Leninist Debris, or Waiting for Peron | 38 |
| 3 | Vindictive and Messianic Mythologies: Post-Communist Nationalism and Populism | 65 |
| 4 | Scapegoating Fantasies: Fascism, Anti-Semitism, and Myth Making in East Central Europe | 88 |
| 5 | Is the Revolution Over? The Myth of Decommunization and the Quest for Political Justice | 111 |
| 6 | A Velvet Counterrevolution? Dissidents, Dreamers, and Realpolitik | 141 |
| Conclusion: The Mythological Construction of Reality: Political Complexity in a Post-Communist World | 153 |
| Notes | 169 |
| Index | 211 |
