The Transition from Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism in Russia

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I THEORY and DEBATE
5. Movement, Formation, and Maintenance in the Soviet Union. Victor Zaslavsky’s Challenge to the Arendtian Theory of Totalitarianism 17
6. European Liberalism in the Age of Totalitarianisms 53
7. Totalitarianism avant la lettre 77
8. Totalitarianism and Ideological Hubris 91
9. From Facts to Words. From Militia Party to Fascist Totalitarianism 113
10. Part II History and Society
11. Stalin the Statesman. A Historian’s Notes 139
12. Stalin’s Dictatorship. Priorities, Policies, and Results 165
13. The “National Question” in the Soviet Union 183
14. The Katyn Case. History and Articulation of Official Discourse in Russia 205
15. Totalitarianism and Science. The Nazi and the Soviet Experience 231
16. From Fascism to Communism. The History of a Conversion 251
17. Part III BEYOND TOTALITARIANISM
18. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vasily Grossman. Slavophile and Westernizer Against the Totalitarian Soviet State 277
19. “Without the free word, there are no free people” Lydia Chukovskaya’s Writings on Terror and Censorship 309
20. The Transition from Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism in Russia 327
21. Totalitarianism, Nationalism, and Challenges for Democratic Transition 353
22. Public Memory and the Difficulty of Overcoming the Communist Legacy. Poland and Russia in Comparative Perspective 385
23. List of Contributors 423
24. Index 429