Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel

Chronicles the changes in Eastern Europe and assesses the prospects for the development of democracy in Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other nations

History

Tismăneanu, Vladimir

Americas

Free Pr

Europe

Free Press

Latin American Revolutionaries: Groups, Goals, Methods

Politics & Social Sciences

Radu, Michael

Politics & Government

POTOMAC BOOKS

The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe: The Poverty of Utopia

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The Revolutions of 1989 is a collection of both classic and recent articles examining the causes and consequences of the collapse of communism in East and Central Europe, the most important event in recent world history. It includes discussion of: * the economic, political and social nature of revolutions * the role of dissidents and civil society in encouraging the breakdown of eastern * European communist regimes * comparisons with other revolutions * the extent of the collapse of Leninist regimes in East-Central Europe. European historians, scholars and students will wnat to make this an integral part of their studies.

The Revolutions of 1989 (Rewriting Histories)

Routledge

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In Search of Civil Society

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

In Search of Civil Society: Independent Peace Movements in the Soviet Bloc

Stalinism for All Seasons is the first comprehensive history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP). It traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members. Vladimir Tismaneanu uses documents that he discovered while working in the RCP archives in Bucharest in the mid-1990s and interviews with many of the party members from the Ceau_escu and Gheorghiu-Dej eras to tell the absorbing story of how RCP members came to power as exponents of Moscow and succeeded in turning themselves into champions of autonomy. Tismaneanu analyzes both the main events in Romanian communism and the role of significant personalities in the party’s history. Situating the rise and fall of Romanian communism within the world revolutionary movement, Stalinism for All Seasons shows that the history of communism in one country can illuminate the development of communism in the twentieth century. Tismaneanu discusses significant moments in the final six decades of world communism, including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Comintern, Stalin and the Bolshevization of the Eastern European communist parties, and de-Stalinization. He examines important events in international affairs during Nicolae Ceau_escu’s rule (1965-1989)―particularly Romania’s role in the Sino-Soviet conflict, the Middle East, European communism, and European security. Finally, Tismaneanu identifies the RCP’s descendants among Romania’s current political parties and personalities. Embracing a long and complex period, this book will interest readers of twentieth-century history and anyone curious about communism and postcommunism.

Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (Volume 11) (Society and Culture in East-Central Europe)

University of California Press

Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century

The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author’s personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth century’s experiments in social engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and occasionally strikingly similar systems of political totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, the place of violence within these systems, and their legacies in contemporary politics. The author discusses thinkers who have shaped contemporary understanding of totalitarian movements―people such as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, François Furet, Tony Judt, Ian Kershaw, Leszek Kolakowski, Richard Pipes, and Robert C. Tucker. As much a theoretical analysis of the practical philosophies of Marxism-Leninism and Fascism as it is a political biography of particular figures, this book deals with the incarnation of diabolically nihilistic principles of human subjugation and conditioning in the name of presumably pure and purifying goals. Ultimately, the author claims that no ideological commitment, no matter how absorbing, should ever prevail over the sanctity of human life. He comes to the conclusion that no party, movement, or leader holds the right to dictate to the followers to renounce their critical faculties and to embrace a pseudo-miraculous, a mystically self-centered, delusional vision of mandatory happiness.

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Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel

Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel

Latin American Revolutionaries: Groups, Goals, Methods

The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe: The Poverty of Utopia

The Revolutions of 1989 (Rewriting Histories)

In Search of Civil Society

In Search of Civil Society: Independent Peace Movements in the Soviet Bloc

Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (Volume 11) (Society and Culture in East-Central Europe)

Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century

Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century