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Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition : Essays in Memory of Victor Zaslavsky /

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 total...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baehr, Peter (Contribuidor), Gentile, Emilio (Contribuidor), Giusti, Maria Teresa (Contribuidor), Graziosi, Andrea (Contribuidor), Gudkov, Lev (Contribuidor), Holloway, David (Contribuidor), Khlevniuk, Oleg (Contribuidor), Kramer, Mark (Contribuidor), Lapidus, Gail (Contribuidor), Orsina, Giovanni (Contribuidor), Pechatnov, Vladimir (Contribuidor), Piffer, Tommaso (Contribuidor, Editor ), Strada, Vittorio (Contribuidor), Tismaneanu, Vladimir (Contribuidor), Vargiu, Riccardo James (Contribuidor), Vujačić, Veljko (Contribuidor), Yazhborovskaia, Inessa (Contribuidor), Zubok, Vladislav (Contribuidor, Editor ), d'Amelia, Antonella (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I THEORY and DEBATE
  • Movement, Formation, and Maintenance in the Soviet Union. Victor Zaslavsky's Challenge to the Arendtian Theory of Totalitarianism
  • European Liberalism in the Age of Totalitarianisms
  • Totalitarianism avant la lettre
  • Totalitarianism and Ideological Hubris
  • From Facts to Words. From Militia Party to Fascist Totalitarianism
  • Part II History and Society
  • Stalin the Statesman. A Historian's Notes
  • Stalin's Dictatorship. Priorities, Policies, and Results
  • The "National Question" in the Soviet Union
  • The Katyn Case. History and Articulation of Official Discourse in Russia
  • Totalitarianism and Science. The Nazi and the Soviet Experience
  • From Fascism to Communism. The History of a Conversion
  • Part III BEYOND TOTALITARIANISM
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vasily Grossman. Slavophile and Westernizer Against the Totalitarian Soviet State
  • "Without the free word, there are no free people" Lydia Chukovskaya's Writings on Terror and Censorship
  • The Transition from Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism in Russia
  • Totalitarianism, Nationalism, and Challenges for Democratic Transition
  • Public Memory and the Difficulty of Overcoming the Communist Legacy. Poland and Russia in Comparative Perspective
  • List of Contributors
  • Index