Jeffrey Kopstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Kopstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Kopstein |
| SIGNATURE | KOPSTEIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Wrecking the public sphere: The new authoritarians’ digital attack on pluralism and truth
Assault on Democracy: Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism during the Interwar Years
The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg GaliciaDaniel Unowsky
The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg GaliciaDaniel Unowsky Daniel Unowsky, The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), 264 pp., cloth $65.00, electronic version available. Jeffrey Kopstein Jeffrey Kopstein University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2, Fall 2…
William W. Hagen. Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920
During World War I and its aftermath, marauding armies and enraged civilians carried out hundreds of pogroms against Jewish civilians on the eastern front and in the borderlands between ethnographic Russia and Poland. These pogroms entailed theft, the destruction of private and communal property, torture, humiliation, rape, and murder. Historians have documented anti-Jewish riots and massacres in Russia and Ukraine. William W. Hagen, in Anti-Jewi…
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors note that while some communities erupted in anti-Jewish violence, most others remained quiescent. In fact, fewer than 10 percent of communities saw pogr…
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? This book address that age-old question through an examination of a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the June, 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. Exploiting the collapse of state authority, some Poles and Ukrainians viciously attacked their Jewish neighbors. Against explanations …
Comment on Ian Lustick’s ‘The Holocaust in Israeli Political Culture: Four Constructions and Their Consequences’: Editor’s Note: This Comment is a Response to Ian Lustick’s Article in This Issue of Co…
Post-Communism, the Civilizing Process, and the Mixed Impact of Leninist Violence
Leninism and the central role that violence played in it is most commonly presented as a hindrance to democratic development in post-communist Eastern Europe. This paper reconsiders this proposition in light of the classics of comparative historical analysis. These classic works maintain that the long-term consequences of revolutionary violence sometimes counteract its short-term anti-democratic impact. Social change unleashed by revolution can c…
Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the 21st Century
As a Lens for the Communist Past and Post-communist Future
Political scientists have documented significant variation in political and economic outcomes of the 1989–91 revolutions. Countries bordering on western Europe have become relatively democratic and economically successful, with both democracy and wealth dropping off as one moves east and south. Explanations for this variation and the replication of an older pattern on the Eurasian landmass have moved farther and farther into the past. Yet in movi…
Growing Apart: America and Europe in the 21st Century
As Europe Gets Larger, Will It Disappear
Political theorists from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli and Montesquieu have frequently commented on the connection between the size of a political community and its coherence. The dominant strand of thought in Western political theory suggests the importance of restricting the size of a political unit. Small political units more readily maintain solidarity and find common interests among members than larger ones. Large political units, by co…
The transatlantic divide over democracy promotion
Potential disagreement exists between Europe and the United States over how, not whether, to promote democracy. Will democracy promotion become yet another new source of transatlantic tension, or is it an area in which they can work together
Honecker's Revenge: The Enduring Legacy of German Unification in the 2005 Election
A core lesson of Germany's federal election of September 2005 is the enduring legacy of the communist past in East Germany, a legacy that substantially shapes politics in unified Germany. Fifteen years after unification, the crucial difference in German politics still lies in the East. The 2005 election demonstrated the enduring east-west divide in German party politics. The result is that Germany today has two coherent party systems, one in the …
Revue des revues
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque …
Rereading The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power
Postcommunist Democracy: Legacies and Outcomes
The GDR: Internal and External Constraints
Gareth Pritchard, The Making of the GDR: From Anti-Fascism to Stalinism, 1945-1953 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000)M.E. Sarotte, Dealing with the Devil: East Germany and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001
Bad Civil Society
Examinant les differentes versions de l'argument de la societe civile en faveur de la democratie liberale, l'A. interroge les raisons socio-economiques qui poussent les gens a rejoindre de mauvaises organisations qui portent prejudice aux associations et a l'efficacite democratique
The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?Katherine Verdery Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 298
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Chipping Away at the State: Workers' Resistance and the Demise of East Germany
This article is a study of everyday resistance and political protest among East German workers under communism. It develops and adduces evidence for two hypotheses based on evidence from Communist Party and state archives. First, in contrast to the standard explanation for the revolution of 1989, which emphasizes intellectual and popular mobilization against the regime, this essay emphasizes the long-term capacity of otherwisepowerless workers to…
Ulbricht embattled: The quest for socialist modernity in the light of new sources
Two GENERATIONS OF SCHOLARS have focused on the relationship between communism and modernity. On one view, communism embodied the very essence of modernity because of its reliance on instrumental rationality-the willingness to use any means to attain its desired end.1 To others, communism may have been moder, but it was a grand failure as far as 'modernisation' cum sustained economic advancement is concerned.2 The gap between modernity and modern…
Bad Civil Society
Examinant les differentes versions de l'argument de la societe civile en faveur de la democratie liberale, l'A. interroge les raisons socio-economiques qui poussent les gens a rejoindre de mauvaises organisations qui portent prejudice aux associations et a l'efficacite democratique
Postcommunist Democracy: Legacies and Outcomes
Chipping Away at the State: Workers' Resistance and the Demise of East Germany
This article is a study of everyday resistance and political protest among East German workers under communism. It develops and adduces evidence for two hypotheses based on evidence from Communist Party and state archives. First, in contrast to the standard explanation for the revolution of 1989, which emphasizes intellectual and popular mobilization against the regime, this essay emphasizes the long-term capacity of otherwisepowerless workers to…
The transatlantic divide over democracy promotion
Potential disagreement exists between Europe and the United States over how, not whether, to promote democracy. Will democracy promotion become yet another new source of transatlantic tension, or is it an area in which they can work together
Wrecking the public sphere: The new authoritarians’ digital attack on pluralism and truth
As Europe Gets Larger, Will It Disappear
Political theorists from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli and Montesquieu have frequently commented on the connection between the size of a political community and its coherence. The dominant strand of thought in Western political theory suggests the importance of restricting the size of a political unit. Small political units more readily maintain solidarity and find common interests among members than larger ones. Large political units, by co…
Ulbricht embattled: The quest for socialist modernity in the light of new sources
Two GENERATIONS OF SCHOLARS have focused on the relationship between communism and modernity. On one view, communism embodied the very essence of modernity because of its reliance on instrumental rationality-the willingness to use any means to attain its desired end.1 To others, communism may have been moder, but it was a grand failure as far as 'modernisation' cum sustained economic advancement is concerned.2 The gap between modernity and modern…
Post-Communism, the Civilizing Process, and the Mixed Impact of Leninist Violence
Leninism and the central role that violence played in it is most commonly presented as a hindrance to democratic development in post-communist Eastern Europe. This paper reconsiders this proposition in light of the classics of comparative historical analysis. These classic works maintain that the long-term consequences of revolutionary violence sometimes counteract its short-term anti-democratic impact. Social change unleashed by revolution can c…
As a Lens for the Communist Past and Post-communist Future
Political scientists have documented significant variation in political and economic outcomes of the 1989–91 revolutions. Countries bordering on western Europe have become relatively democratic and economically successful, with both democracy and wealth dropping off as one moves east and south. Explanations for this variation and the replication of an older pattern on the Eurasian landmass have moved farther and farther into the past. Yet in movi…
Honecker's Revenge: The Enduring Legacy of German Unification in the 2005 Election
A core lesson of Germany's federal election of September 2005 is the enduring legacy of the communist past in East Germany, a legacy that substantially shapes politics in unified Germany. Fifteen years after unification, the crucial difference in German politics still lies in the East. The 2005 election demonstrated the enduring east-west divide in German party politics. The result is that Germany today has two coherent party systems, one in the …
Ulbricht embattled: The quest for socialist modernity in the light of new sources
Two GENERATIONS OF SCHOLARS have focused on the relationship between communism and modernity. On one view, communism embodied the very essence of modernity because of its reliance on instrumental rationality-the willingness to use any means to attain its desired end.1 To others, communism may have been moder, but it was a grand failure as far as 'modernisation' cum sustained economic advancement is concerned.2 The gap between modernity and modern…
Chipping Away at the State: Workers' Resistance and the Demise of East Germany
This article is a study of everyday resistance and political protest among East German workers under communism. It develops and adduces evidence for two hypotheses based on evidence from Communist Party and state archives. First, in contrast to the standard explanation for the revolution of 1989, which emphasizes intellectual and popular mobilization against the regime, this essay emphasizes the long-term capacity of otherwisepowerless workers to…
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?Katherine Verdery Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 298
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
Bad Civil Society
Examinant les differentes versions de l'argument de la societe civile en faveur de la democratie liberale, l'A. interroge les raisons socio-economiques qui poussent les gens a rejoindre de mauvaises organisations qui portent prejudice aux associations et a l'efficacite democratique
The GDR: Internal and External Constraints
Gareth Pritchard, The Making of the GDR: From Anti-Fascism to Stalinism, 1945-1953 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000)M.E. Sarotte, Dealing with the Devil: East Germany and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001
Postcommunist Democracy: Legacies and Outcomes
Revue des revues
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque …
Rereading The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power
As Europe Gets Larger, Will It Disappear
Political theorists from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli and Montesquieu have frequently commented on the connection between the size of a political community and its coherence. The dominant strand of thought in Western political theory suggests the importance of restricting the size of a political unit. Small political units more readily maintain solidarity and find common interests among members than larger ones. Large political units, by co…
The transatlantic divide over democracy promotion
Potential disagreement exists between Europe and the United States over how, not whether, to promote democracy. Will democracy promotion become yet another new source of transatlantic tension, or is it an area in which they can work together
Honecker's Revenge: The Enduring Legacy of German Unification in the 2005 Election
A core lesson of Germany's federal election of September 2005 is the enduring legacy of the communist past in East Germany, a legacy that substantially shapes politics in unified Germany. Fifteen years after unification, the crucial difference in German politics still lies in the East. The 2005 election demonstrated the enduring east-west divide in German party politics. The result is that Germany today has two coherent party systems, one in the …
Growing Apart: America and Europe in the 21st Century
As a Lens for the Communist Past and Post-communist Future
Political scientists have documented significant variation in political and economic outcomes of the 1989–91 revolutions. Countries bordering on western Europe have become relatively democratic and economically successful, with both democracy and wealth dropping off as one moves east and south. Explanations for this variation and the replication of an older pattern on the Eurasian landmass have moved farther and farther into the past. Yet in movi…
Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the 21st Century
Post-Communism, the Civilizing Process, and the Mixed Impact of Leninist Violence
Leninism and the central role that violence played in it is most commonly presented as a hindrance to democratic development in post-communist Eastern Europe. This paper reconsiders this proposition in light of the classics of comparative historical analysis. These classic works maintain that the long-term consequences of revolutionary violence sometimes counteract its short-term anti-democratic impact. Social change unleashed by revolution can c…
Comment on Ian Lustick’s ‘The Holocaust in Israeli Political Culture: Four Constructions and Their Consequences’: Editor’s Note: This Comment is a Response to Ian Lustick’s Article in This Issue of Co…
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors note that while some communities erupted in anti-Jewish violence, most others remained quiescent. In fact, fewer than 10 percent of communities saw pogr…
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? This book address that age-old question through an examination of a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the June, 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. Exploiting the collapse of state authority, some Poles and Ukrainians viciously attacked their Jewish neighbors. Against explanations …
The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg GaliciaDaniel Unowsky
The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg GaliciaDaniel Unowsky Daniel Unowsky, The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), 264 pp., cloth $65.00, electronic version available. Jeffrey Kopstein Jeffrey Kopstein University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2, Fall 2…
William W. Hagen. Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920
During World War I and its aftermath, marauding armies and enraged civilians carried out hundreds of pogroms against Jewish civilians on the eastern front and in the borderlands between ethnographic Russia and Poland. These pogroms entailed theft, the destruction of private and communal property, torture, humiliation, rape, and murder. Historians have documented anti-Jewish riots and massacres in Russia and Ukraine. William W. Hagen, in Anti-Jewi…
Assault on Democracy: Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism during the Interwar Years
Wrecking the public sphere: The new authoritarians’ digital attack on pluralism and truth
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