The Disintegration of Communist Federations

Nakon raspada komunističkih društava nastavili su se procesi koji su bili prekinuti dolaskom na vlast komunističkih stranaka i njihovih programa radikalnih promjena kojima se nastojalo izbrisati sve socijalne odnose koje je građansko društvo do tada razvijalo. Autor ne osporava tezu da je put razvitka građanskih država povijesno pravilo, nego ističe da probleme postkomunizma nije moguće riješiti jednostavnim oponašanjem onoga što na Zapadu postoji. Zemlje istočne Europe ne mogu preskočiti faze koje nisu ranije prošle a očito je da će iste povijesne procese morati proći na specifičan način. Faza stvaranja nacionalne države, određeni rizici i potencijalne konfliktne situacije ne mogu se izbjeći zaustavljanjem procesa pokrenutih padom komunizma, jer proizvode sasvim suprotan efekt. Autor osporava tezu zagovornika velikih integrativnih cjelina koji tvrde da je raspad komunističkih federacija posljedica djelovanja nacionalista i nacionalnih pokreta te pokazuje da je dezintegracija bila neodvojiv sastavni dio raspada starog političkog poretka.The disitegration of Communist societies is a continuation of the processes that were interrupted when the Communist Parties came to power with their programs of radical changes aimed at erasing all the social relationships that had been developed within a civil society. The author does not contest the thesis that the development of bourgeois countries is a historical rule but he stresses that the problem of post-Communism cannot be solved by simply imitating everything that there is in the West. The countries of the European East cannot stride over the phases that they did not pass through earlier; it is evident that they will have to undergo the same historical processes in their specific manner. The phase in which national states are formed cannot be avoided and it does carry certain risks. Potential conflict situations cannot be evaded by stopping the processes put into motion by the fall of Communism because this would produce an opposite effect. The author contests the opinion of the advocates of large integrative wholes who assert that the Communist federations have disintegrated as a consequence of the activities of the nationalists and the national movements. He shows that disintegration represented an iseparable part of the dissolution of the old political order