Stalinism Revisited

The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8044827
AutoresVladimir Tismaneanu (0000-0001-7835-2477, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Páginas452
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaStalinism Revisited (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCentral European University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7829/9786155211812
OpenAlexW614877162
Open LibraryOL31370425M
ISBN9786155211812
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas12

StaliniSm ReviSited lutionary instability will be moral." 2 if one concurs, then the study of eastern europe's Stalinization remains an important source of pedagogically and cathartically rich examples for the present.the initial premise behind the above-mentioned event was that we are now better equipped for understanding and interpreting the complex circumstances behind the Stalinist expansion in eastern europe.We had in mind such dynamics as the early history of the Cold War, the Stalinist revolutionary project in the region, the participation of local communist elites, the impact of titoism on these elites, the rivalries between "muscovites" and "home communists," and the first attempts at constructing, via the Cominform (the information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties, founded in 1947), a moscow-centered supra-governmental communist organization.additionally, many contributors historiographically contextualized the problems singled out in their papers.the volume, subsequently, attained a retrospective facet as well.it familiarizes the reader with the domestic scholarly literature from the various eastern european countries dealing with the aspects of the establishment of communist regimes in the region.One could also argue that this book discusses and revisits the main hypotheses regarding the inception of the Soviet Bloc as formulated in the classic work on the topic by Zbigniew Brzeziński. 3 it should be noted, however, that our intention was not to produce a grand narrative about the first decade of the communist experience in eastern europe.We purposely chose to create a composite framework reflective of the fragmented discourse about the various political and historical issues discussed.the volume highlights the political, ideological, and personal variables that characterized the post-1945 decade.it emphasizes the complexities, ambiguities and contradictions which affected both the rationality of the actors involved and the predictability of historical events.Consequently, the volume embraces a multi-directional perspective, mirroring the tremendous diversity of domestic and international processes present in each of the cases in the individual papers

Ancient history · Communism · East-Central Europe · Economic history · Geography · Political science · Politics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 · c 1945 to c 1960 · Central Europe · Eastern · Eastern Europe · Europe · European history · foreign relations · joseph Stalin (1879-1953) · Marxism & Communism · politics and government · Soviet Union