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Totalitarian societies and democratic transition: essays in memory of Victor Zaslavsky

Piffer, Tommaso and Zubok, Vladislav, eds. (2017) Totalitarian societies and democratic transition: essays in memory of Victor Zaslavsky. Central European University Press, Budapest, Hungary. ISBN 9789633861301

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Abstract

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 essaysleading 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.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.ceupress.com/index.html
Additional Information: © 2017 Central European University Press
Divisions: International History
Subjects: J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited: 22 May 2017 13:22
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2024 07:12
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/78182

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