Habersack, Sabine - Puşcaş, Vasile - Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Democraţia in Europa centrală şi de Sud-Est - Aspiraţie şi realitate (Secolele XIX-XX) (Satu Mare, 2001)

Ivan Vovkanych: Democracy and Totalitarianism in East European Countries: Transition Periods int he History of the 20th century

Ivan Vovkanych

the conditions of the delicate transitional democracy can, even nowadays, lead to “self-totalitarization” of any post-socialist society. The historic experience of the tragic victory of totalitarianism over democracy in late 40s proves that a society can easily and quickly lose democratic achievements even through the influence of subjective factors whereas the return to democratic way of development of the civilization can take much longer.

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