Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition

1. Introduction
T. Piffer and V. Zubok

PART I: Theory and Debate
2. Movement, Formation, and Maintenance in the Soviet Union
Victor Zaslavsky's Challenge to the Arendtian Theory of Totalitarianism
Peter Baehr
3. European Liberalism in the Age of Totalitarianism
Giovanni Orsina
4. Totalitarismum ante litteram
Vittorio Strada
5. Totalitarian Dictators and Ideological Hubris
Vladimir Tismaneanu
6. From Facts to Words
From the Party Militia to Fascist Totalitarianism
Emilio Gentile

PART II: History and Society
7. Stalin as a Statesman
A Historian's Notes
Vladimir Pechatnov
8. Stalin's Dictatorship
Priorities, Policies, and Results
Oleg Khlevniuk
9. The "National Question" in the Soviet Union
Andrea Graziosi
10. The Katyn Case
History and Articulation of Official Discourse in Russia
Inessa Yazhborovskaia
11. Totalitarianism and Science
The Nazi and the Soviet Experience
David Holloway
12. From Fascism to Communism
The History of a Conversion
Maria Teresa Giusti

PART III: Beyond Totalitarianism
13. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vasily Grossman
Slavophile and Westernizer Against the Totalitarian Soviet State
Veljco Vujacic,
14. "Without a free word, there are no free men"
Lydia Chukovskaya's Writings on Terror and Censorship
Antonella d'Amelia
15. The Transition from Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism in Russia
Lev Gudkov
16. Totalitarianism, Nationalism, and Challenges for Democratic Transition
Gail Lapidus
17. Public Memory and the Difficulty of Overcoming the Communist Legacy
Poland and Russia in Comparative Perspective
Mark Kramer

List of Contributors
Index