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- Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition: Essays in Memory of Victor Zaslavsky
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Central European University Press
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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 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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- I. Theory and Debate
- Totalitarianism avant la lettre
- pp. 77-90
- Totalitarianism and Ideological Hubris
- pp. 78-112
- II. History and Society
- Stalin the Statesman: A Historian’s Notes
- pp. 141-164
- The “National Question” in the Soviet Union
- pp. 183-204
- III. Beyond Totalitarianism
- List of Contributors
- pp. 423-428
Additional Information
ISBN
9789633861325
Related ISBN(s)
9789633861301
MARC Record
OCLC
986942284
Pages
442
Launched on MUSE
2017-05-14
Language
English
Open Access
No