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Pierre Kende, « Un retour à quelle tradition ? », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, ID : 10.3406/xxs.1992.2607
A return to which tradition ?, Pierre Rende. After the collapse of communism, the question of political and socio-cultural models is posed with particular intensity in Central Europe, especially by a tendency to " return to the past " which feeds the process of transition with the references it needs. But one must not be led astray : because traditions prior to communism are diverse — and often antagonistic —, because the mechanisms of tradition transmission are often lacking, and because the communist years inevitably belong to a past that weighs on the present, the national culture of the former USSR satellites can only be reconstructed by trial and error.