The Costs of Partition in Europe: A South Asian Perspective

In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 762-766

Abstract

Bob Hayden is the unusual kind of scholar who makes us confront our darker side. Our choice examples of civic culture and democratic functioning seem to emerge less shining as a consequence of his exposition. When put into a perspective that includes contemporary ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, both Steven Spielberg's Hollywoodized Oskar Schindler and Vaclav Klaus's Czech Republic lose some of their luster.