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The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.

The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.

Charles S. Maier
Ukraine, Legacy, Roles
Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.160, Harvard University Press

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

Charles S. Maier
Past, Identity, Masters
Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.136, Harvard University Press

Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations.

Charles S. Maier
Government, Innovation, Calling
Charles S. Maier (1987). “In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the concept, takes honest account of the conservative critiques it has provoked, but proposes that it can serve as a robust norm for European Union citizenship. This is a profound meditation with real importance for contemporary political society.

Charles S. Maier
Real, Long, Profound

With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's overthrow of repressive state socialism. What an invaluable guide to the elusive exhilaration that motivated the actors and captivated all of us who followed the transformation with such hope! We can appreciate neither the ebullience of 1989 nor the disappointment with the quotidian reality that followed without understanding Kenney's 'carnival.'

Charles S. Maier
Disappointment, Reality, Hands

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