Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition

Essays in Memory of Victor Zaslavsky

Tommaso Piffer, Vladislav Zubok (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

442 Seiten

2017
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-386-130-1 (ISBN)

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This book is a tribute to the memory of Victor Zaslavsky (1937-2009), sociologist, emigre 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.

Tommaso Piffer is a Bodossakis Research Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge and an affiliate of the Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Vladislav Zubok is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. Among his publications are Inside the Kremlin's Cold War (with Costantine Pleshakov, Harvard University Press, 1996); Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin (with Eric Shiraev, Palgrave Press, 2000); A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The University of North Carolina Press, 2007); Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Harvard University Press, 2009).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2018
Übersetzer	Riccardo James Vargiu
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 234 mm
Gewicht	720 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
ISBN-10	963-386-130-6 / 9633861306
ISBN-13	978-963-386-130-1 / 9789633861301
Zustand	Neuware