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

Piffer, Tommaso.

Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition : Essays in Memory of Victor Zaslavsky. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (444 pages)

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 Totalitarianism -- Totalitarianism and Ideological Hubris -- Totalitarianism avant la lettre -- From Facts to Words: From Militia Party to Fascist Totalitarianism -- 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 -- 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 -- Back cover.

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Totalitarianism-History.
Totalitarianism-Philosophy.
Post-communism-Russia (Federation).
Soviet Union-Politics and government.
Russia (Federation)-Politics and government.


Electronic books.

JC480.T683 2017

320.53

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