Stalinism Revisited : The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe /

This book is a comparative framework for interpreting the relationship between late Stalinism and the communist takeovers in former Eastern Europe. A bonus for the volume is that it also provides detailed, sectorial analyses for the Romanian case, something that the field particularly lacks. The str...

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Other Authors: Tismaneanu, Vladimir
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Central European University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Stalinism revisited and the takeover model
  • Stalinist revolutionary breakthroughs in Eastern Europe / Kenneth Jowitt
  • Diabolical pedagogy and the (il)logic of Stalinism in Eastern Europe / Vladimir Tismaneanu
  • Stalin, Soviet policy, and the consolidation of a communist bloc in Eastern Europe, 1944-1953 / Mark Kramer
  • Popular democracy : an illusion? / Alfred J. Rieber
  • The establishment of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Eastern Europe between the USSR and the West : reflections on the origins and dynamics of the Cold War / Thomas W. Simons, Jr
  • Legitimation deficit and legitimation crisis in East European societies / Agnes Heller
  • The paradox of East German communism : from non-Stalinism to neo-Stalinism? / John Connelly
  • Road to "people's Poland" : Stalin's conquest revisited / Antoni Z. Kaminski, Bartłomiej Kaminski
  • Stalinism and historiography
  • Revisiting Hungarian Stalinism / János Rainer
  • Avatars of the Romanian academy and the historical front (1948 versus1955) / Bogdan Cristian Iacob
  • Bulgarian Stalinism revisited / Ekaterina Nikova
  • Historicizing a disputed theme : anti-communist armed resistance in Romania / Dorin Dobrincu
  • National or revolutionary breakthroughs?
  • Hope died last : the Czechoslovak road to Stalinism / Bradley Abrams
  • Propaganda and culture in Romania at the beginning of the communist regime / Cristian Vasile
  • Varieties of Stalinism in light of the Yugoslav case / Svetozar Stojanovic
  • Community building and identity politics in Gheorghiu-Dej's Romania (1956-1964) / Dragoș Petrescu.