Totalitarian societies and democratic transition : Essays in memory of Victor Zaslavsky / edited by Tommaso Piffer and Vladislav Zubok.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zaslavsky, Victor, 1937-2009, honouree.

Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich), editor of compilation.

Piffer, Tommaso, editor of compilation.

Standardized Title:

Società totalitarie e transizione alla democrazia. English.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Post-communism--Russia (Federation).

Post-communism.

Totalitarianism--Philosophy.

Totalitarianism.

Totalitarianism--History.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government.

Russia (Federation).

Soviet Union--Politics and government.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

New York : Central European University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Originally published on the occasion of the second anniversary of the death of Prof. Victor Zaslavsky. The book deals with the theory and the history of totalitarian society with a comparative approach. Consists of three sections: Theory and debate; History and society; Beyond Totalitarianism. The authors are among the leading European, American and Russian scholars"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Tommaso Piffer and Vladislav Zubok, Introduction

Part I: Theory and Debate

Peter Baehr, Movement, Formation, and Maintenance in the Soviet Union : Victor Zaslavsky's Challenge to the Arendtian Theory of Totalitarianism

Giovanni Orsina, European Liberalism in the Age of Totalitarianism

Vittorio Strada, Totalitaranism avant la lettre

Vladimir Tismaneanu, Totalitarianism and Ideological Hubris

Emilio Gentile, From Facts to Words : From Militia Party to Fascist Totalitarianism

Part II: History and Society

Vladimir Pechatnov, Stalin the Statesman : A Historian's Notes

Oleg Khlevniuk, Stalin's Dictatorship : Priorities, Policies, and Results

Andrea Graziosi, The "National Question" in the Soviet Union

Inessa Yazhborovskaia, The Katyn Case : History and Articulation of Official Discourse in Russia

David Holloway, Totalitarianism and Science : The Nazi and the Soviet Experience

Maria Teresa Giusti, From Fascism to Communism : The History of a Conversion

Part III: Beyond Totalitarianism

Veljco Vujacic, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vasily Grossman : Slavophile and Westernizer Against the Totalitarian Soviet State

Antonella d'Amelia, "Without the free word, there are no free people" : Lydia Chukovskaya's Writings on Terror and Censorship

Lev Gudkov, The Transition from Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism in Russia

Gail Lapidus, Totalitarianism, Nationalism, and Challenges for Democratic Transition

Mark Kramer, Public Memory and the Difficulty of Overcoming the Communist Legacy : Poland and Russia in Comparative Perspective.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72338-1

963-386-132-2

9781003723387

OCLC:

986942284