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There are four main questions that a sociological analysis of ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe should seek to illuminate:
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Why have ethnic conflicts become such a predominant fact of contemporary East European history? Here it is not enough to use Nietzsche’s formula of ‘eternal return’, at least not in the unqualified way it has been presented, as a mere ‘repetition’ of earlier outbursts of ethnic hatred (Glenny, 1992; Joffe, 1992; Kennan, 1993). Nor can we accept the equally simplifying theory of ‘suppressed ethnicity’, emerging as the ‘lid of communism’ is lifted off (Zizek, 1990; Sampson, 1992).
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Kupferberg, F. (1999). A Hotbed of Hatred. In: The Break-up of Communism in East Germany and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27088-0_5
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