Beyond Revolutionary Disillusion

Italians shared the same belief after the disillusion of 1848.

PRAGUE All revolutions, in the end, turn from euphoria to disillusion.

Others expressed the same disillusion with a gloating air of schadenfreude .

The EU s failure to encourage Ukraine s European aspirations risks creating disillusion with the West.

Overall, the reaction of both press and public is one of disillusion and or cynicism.

Without political reforms, China s confidence in herself will quickly turn into disillusion, or even delusion.

Yet Blair s domestic legacy is a mood of disillusion and mistrust, especially of Blair himself.

Disillusion with politics and politicians also is a key element of our yearning for providential leaders.

It is up to Ukrainians to decide this for themselves and thus to overcome post revolutionary disillusion.

Many liberal minded people expressed, often sorrowfully, their deep disillusion with America during the dark Bush years.

In Spain, by contrast, disillusion with the Union has replaced the early enthusiasm of the movida period.

All of these protests were brutally crushed, which resulted in many West European Communists leaving the Party in utter disillusion.

But each wave of collapse breeds a greater degree of disillusion about particular institutions, which are blamed for the outcome.

Post revolutionary disillusion, especially after the revolutions against communism and in Ukraine's case revolution against post communism is rooted in psychology.

Expectations, usually set too high to begin with, fail to be met, resulting in anger, disillusion, and often in acts of terrifying violence.

Although it is clear that a return to the old Soviet Union is not possible, some blame Russian influence for the disillusion in Ukraine.

In France for example, the overly flattering commemoration of President François Mitterrand s death ten years ago primarily reflects widespread disillusion with his successor, Jacques Chirac.

This growing disillusion was already present when a wave of cyber attacks on Google (and other companies) forced the company to re assess its entire China strategy.

Disillusion fully set in only one year after Medvedev s election, when a new case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev was brought, this time for embezzlement of billions and money laundering.

Disillusion with democracy Boris Yeltsin style has pushed President Vladimir Putin to search for an ideology based on nationalism and the glorification of the state. Putin calls it managed pluralism.

Yet one thing is clear Chavez was the first ruler of his generation to recognize the region s fatigue and disillusion with neo liberalism, and to propose new rules of the game.

India s worries and frustrations in Afghanistan and Pakistan translate into a mixture of disillusion and irritation with an America that, seen from New Delhi, allows itself to be manipulated by Pakistani officials.

The Soviet Union and other socialist countries faced a crisis of faith, as the main threat to communism was not imperialism, or ideological dissidents, but the movement s own intellectual poverty and disillusion.

But the main reason for Britain s popular disillusion with Blair comes down to his role in the Iraq war, which was launched with the ostensible aim of pre empting Iraq s use weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

The EU s failure to encourage Ukraine s European aspirations risks creating disillusion with the West. That would strengthen Russia s position in Ukraine, where the Kremlin constantly encourages a return to Slavic roots and warns against flirting with a West that doesn t want it.

The day when He shall gather you unto the Day of Assembling , that will be a day of mutual disillusion . And whoso believeth in Allah and doeth right , He will remit from him his evil deeds and will bring him unto Gardens underneath which rivers flow , therein to abide for ever .