Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition
Essays in Memory of Victor Zaslavsky
Published on 15. May 2017
442 pages
978-963-386-132-5 (ISBN)
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This book is a tribute to the memory of Victor Zaslavsky (1937-2009), sociologist, émigré from the Soviet Union, Canadian citizen, public intellectual, and keen observer of Eastern Europe. In seventeen essays leading European, American and Russian scholars discuss the theory and the history of totalitarian society with a comparative approach. They revisit and reassess what Zaslavsky considered the most important project in the latter part of his life: the analysis of Eastern European - especially Soviet societies and their difficult "transition" after the fall of communism in 1989-91. The variety of the contributions reflects the diversity of specialists in the volume, but also reveals Zaslavsky's gift: he surrounded himself with talented people from many different fields and disciplines. In line with Zaslavsky's work and scholarly method, the book promotes new theoretical and methodological approaches to the concept of totalitarianism for understanding Soviet and East European societies, and the study of fascist and communist regimes in general.
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English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,99 MB
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978-963-386-132-5 (9789633861325)
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Tommaso Piffer | Vladislav Zubok
Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition
Essays in Memory of Victor Zaslavsky
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Content
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
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
