Stalinism revisited
Subtitle: the establishment of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
By: edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu.
Contributors: Tismaneanu, Vladimir.
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789639776555
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953; Communism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century; Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989; Europe, Eastern -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Europe, Eastern; Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Stalinism : a takeover model.; title: Stalinist revolutionary breakthroughs in Eastern Europe / Kenneth Jowitt; title: Diabolical pedagogy and the (il)logic of Stalinism in Eastern Europe /  Vladimir Tismaneanu; title: Stalin, Soviet policy, and the consolidation of a communist bloc in Eastern Europe, 1944-1953 /  Mark Kramer; title: Popular democracy : an illusion? / Alfred J. Rieber; title: Ch. 2 The establishment of communist regimes.; title: Eastern Europe between the USSR and the West : reflections on the origins and dynamics of the Cold War / Thomas W. Simons, Jr; title: Legitimation deficit and legitimation crisis in East European societies / Agnes Heller; title: The paradox of East German communism : from non-Stalinism to neo-Stalinism? / John Connelly; title: Road to people's Poland : Stalin's conquest revisited / Antoni Z. Kaminski, Bartlomiej Kaminski; title: Ch. 3. Stalinism and historiography.; title: Revisiting Hungarian Stalinism / Janos Rainer; title: Avatars of the Romanian academy and the historical front (1948 versus1955) / Bogdan Cristian Iacob; title: Bulgarian Stalinism revisited / Ekaterina Nikova; title: Historicizing a disputed theme : anticommunist armed resistance in Romania / Dorin Dobrincu; title: Ch. 4. National or revolutionary breakthroughs?; title: Hope died last : the Czechoslovak road to Stalinism /  Bradley Abrams; title: Propaganda and culture in Romania at the beginning of the communist regime / Cristian Vasile; title: Varieties of Stalinism in light of the Yugoslav case / Svetozar Stojanovic; title: Community building and identity politics in Gheorghiu-Dej's Romania (1956-1964) / Dragos Petrescu.