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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2016; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (437 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.53
• Soggetto topico: Post-communism - Russia (Federation); Totalitarianism - Philosophy; Totalitarianism - History
• Soggetto geografico: Russia (Federation) Politics and government; Soviet Union Politics and government
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th century, Dictatorship, Fascism, Memory politics, Nationalism, Nazism, Prisoners of war
• Persona (resp. second.): ZaslavskyVictor <1937-2009, >; ZubokV. M (Vladislav Martinovich); PifferTommaso
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Totalitarian societies and democratic transition
• ISBN: 963-386-132-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820577303321
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