The totalitarian paradigm after the end of Communism : : towards a theoretical reassessment /

The totalitarian paradigm after the end of Communism : : towards a theoretical reassessment / / Achim Siegel.

Concepts of totalitarianism have undergone an academic revival in recent years, particularly since the breakdown of communist systems in Europe in 1989-91: the totalitarian paradigm, so it seems to many scholars today, had been discarded prematurely in the heat of the Cold War. The demise of communi...

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Superior document:Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; Volume 65
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Siegel, Achim,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Series:Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; Volume 65.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Achim SIEGEL: Introduction
  • The Changing Fortunes of the Totalitarian Paradigm in Communist Studies
  • ON RECENT CONTROVERSIES OVER THE CONCEPT OF TOTALITARIANISM
  • Klaus von BEYME: The Concept of Totalitarianism - A Reassessment after the End of Communist Rule
  • Klaus MUELLER: East European Studies, Neo-Totalitarianism and Social Science Theory
  • Leszek NOWAK: A Conception that is Supposed to Correspond to the Totalitarian Approach to Realsocialism
  • Ernst NOLTE: The Three Versions of the Theory of Totalitarianism and the Significance of the Historical-Genetic Version
  • Eckhard JESSE: The Two Major Instances of Totalitarianism: Observations on the Interconnection between Soviet Communism and National Socialism
  • CLASSIC CONCEPTS OF TOTALITARIANISM
  • REASSESSMENT AND REINTERPRETATION
  • Johann P
  • ARNASON: Totalitarianism and Modernity: Franz Borkenau's Totalitarian Enemy as a Source of Sociological Theorizing on Totalitarianism
  • Alfons SÖLLNER: Sigmund Neumann's Permanent Revolution : A Forgotten Classic of Comparative Research into Modern Dictatorships
  • Friedrich POHLMANN: The Seeds of Destruction in Totalitarian Systems
  • An Interpretation of the Unity of Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
  • Werner J
  • PATZELT: Reality Construction under Totalitarianism: An Ethnomethodological Elaboration of Martin Draht's Concept of Totalitarianism
  • Achim SIEGEL: Carl Joachim Friedrich's Concept of Totalitarian Dictatorship
  • A Reinterpretation
  • Mark R
  • THOMPSON: Neither Totalitarian nor Authoritarian: Post-Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe.

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