The Post-Totalitarian Blues

Issue Date April 1995
Volume 6
Issue 2
Page Numbers 61-73
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About the Authors

Jacques Rupnik

Jacques Rupnik is senior research fellow at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris and professor at Sciences Po, as well as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

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Deborah M. Brissman

Deborah M. Brissman translated this essay, a version of which appeared in the Summer 1994 issue of L’Autre Europe, from French.

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