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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tommaso Piffer (Research Fellow, University of Cambridge and Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies) , Vladislav Zubok (Professor of International History, London School of Economics) , Riccardo James VargiuPublisher: Central European University Press Imprint: Central European University Press Weight: 0.720kg ISBN: 9789633861301ISBN 10: 9633861306 Pages: 442 Publication Date: 15 May 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. T. Piffer and V. Zubok, Introduction Part I: Theory and Debate 2. Peter Baehr, Movement, Formation, and Maintenance in the Soviet Union: Victor Zaslavsky’s Challenge to the Arendtian Theory of Totalitarianism 3. Giovanni Orsina, European Liberalism in the Age of Totalitarianism 4. Vittorio Strada, Totalitarismum ante litteram 5. Vladimir Tismaneanu, Totalitarian Dictators and Ideological Hubris 6. Emilio Gentile, From Facts to Words: From the Party Militia to Fascist Totalitarianism Part II: History and Society 7. Vladimir Pechatnov, Stalin as a Statesman 8. Oleg Khlevniuk, Stalin’s Dictatorship: Priorities, Policies, and Results 9. Andrea Graziosi, The “National Question” in the Soviet Union 10. Inessa Yazhborovskaia, The Katyn Affair 11. David Holloway, Totalitarianism and Science: The Nazi and the Soviet Experience 12. Maria Teresa Giusti, From Fascism to Communism: The Conversion to Communism of a Prisoner of War in the USSR Part III: Beyond Totalitarianism 13. Veljco Vujacic, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vasily Grossman: Slavophile and Westernizer Against the Totalitarian Soviet State 14. Antonella d’Amelia, “Without a free word, there are no free men”: Lydia Chukovskaya’s Writings on Terror and Censorship 15. Lev Gudkov, The Transition from Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism in Russia 16. Gail Lapidus, Totalitarianism, Nationalism, and Challenges for Democratic Transition 17. Mark Kramer, Public Memory and the Difficulty of Overcoming the Communist Legacy : Russia and Poland in Comparative PerspectiveReviews"""This fascinating volume of essays reminds me of Victor Zaslavsky himself: smart, sophisticated, engaging, and provocative. The authors also reflect Zaslavsky's own world, which included the very best in Russian, European, and American scholarship in a variety of disciplines. These articles on the Soviet past, totalitarianism, and the transition to the post-Soviet world contain fresh insights into this history, and at the same time provide warnings about the present and the future."" --Norman M. Naimark" Author InformationTommaso 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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