The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History

List of Contributors

List of Contributors căTălin aVramescu is a former fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Institut für Geschichte/Universität Wien and Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia/Università degli Studi di Ferrara. He published articles and studies in the history of modern philosophy, a book on the history of the social contract theories, and translated into Romanian David Hume’s political essays, Thomas Hobbes’ De Corpore Politico and Rousseau’s Social Contract. He is a docent of the University of Helsinki and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Sci ence, University of Bucharest. Among his most recent publication are An Intellectual History of Cannibalism (2009) and Constituţia Statelor Unite ale Americii (2010). Bradley aBrams served as an assistant and, later, associate professor of Eastern European history at Columbia University. He is the author of The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism (2004), which explores the cultural conditions surrounding the Communist Party’s rise to total power in post-World War Two Czechoslovakia. He is currently working on a manuscript investigating the relationship between consumption, consumerism and political legitimacy in late communist Czechoslovakia. cornel Ban is assistant professor of political economy at Boston University’s Department of International Relations. He has a PhD from University of Maryland and prior to his arrival at Boston University he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Cornel’s research on economic ideas and transnational diffusion has been published 580 List of Contributors in Review of International Political Economy, East European Politics and Societies, International Migration and History of Economic Ideas. Tom GallaGHer is emeritus professor of politics at the University of Bradford, UK. He has published ten single-authored academic books on various subjects, including (1) the interplay of religion and nationalism with democracy in modern European politics, and 2) Romania’s problematic exit from communist rule and its attempt to find a new path for sustainable political and economic progress through membership of the European Union. For the past 8 years, he has had a weekly column in the Bucharest daily newspaper România Liberă. His next book will examine how the EU’s hostility to basic aspects of representative democracy helped to cause the current European financial crisis. aGnes Heller was a student and co-worker of Lukács’s during the 1950s. She was one of a group of prominent members of the “Budapest School.” She left Hungary for Australia in the early 1970s. She taught at the University of Melbourne until 1986, when she was appointed Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. Agnes Heller has written widely on the philosophy of history and morals, or the theory of modernity: The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History (2002); A Theory of Modernity (1999); An Ethics of Personality (1996); General Ethics (1988); Beyond Justice (1987) etc. She is presently working on two books: Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life and The Concept of the Beautiful. Agnes Heller received The Sonning Prize, Denmark’s most important cultural awards. She is also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Jeffrey Herf is professor of modern European, especially modern German political and intellectual history at the University of Maryland in College Park. In addition to War by Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles (1991), his publications include Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (1997), The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (2006), and Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (2009). He is currently writing a history of antagonism to Israel in Communist East Germany and in the West German radical left 581 List of Contributors from the Six Day War to the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. BoGdan c. iacoB has a PhD in history from Central European University. The title of his dissertation was Stalinism, Historians, and the Nation. History-Production in Communism Romania 1955–1966. Among his publications are: “The Avatars of the Romanian Academy and the Historical Front” in Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed., Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe (2009) and “Betrayed Promises: Nicolae Ceauşescu, the Romanian Communist Party and the Crisis of 1968...