East Europe reads Nietzsche

Soviet policy imposed so strict a ban on Nietzschean thought that canonical east European writers were routinely "de-Nietzschefied" so that Friedrich Nietzsche's influence on their work was either denied or ignored. Since the collapse of Soviet Communism, reintegrating Nietzsche into east European cultural history has become the task at hand. The nine studies contained in this volume offer a major contribution to understanding Nietzsche's influence on late 19th and early 20th century political thought.