Thematic issue
Guest editors: Constantin Iordachi and Péter Apor
INTRODUCTION
- Constantin Iordachi and Péter Apor
Studying Communist Dictatorships: From Comparative to Transnational History
ARTICLES
- Jan C. Behrends
The Stalinist volonté générale: Legitimizing Communist Statehood (1935–1952): A Comparative Perspective on the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany - Muriel Blaive
“Hidden Transcripts” and Microhistory as a Comparative Tool: Two Case Studies in Communist Czechoslovakia - John R. Lampe
Yugoslavia’s Foreign Policy in Balkan Perspective: Tracking between the Superpowers and Non-Alignment - Bogdan C. Iacob
Is It Transnational? A New Perspective in the Study of Communism
DEBATE
The Collapse of Communist Regimes: Civil vs. Uncivil Societies.
Debate on Stephen Kotkin, with a contribution from Jan T. Gross.
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment. New York: Modern Library, 2009
- Constantin Iordachi
Introduction - Vladimir Tismaneanu
Understanding 1989: Civil Society, Ideological Erosion, and Elite Disenchantment - Veljko Vujačić
“Uncivil Society?” Where Is the Sociology? - Kazimierz Z. Poznański
Outgoing Party-State: Incompetent or Self-Interested? Comments on Kotkin’s Uncivil Society - Arista Maria Cirtautas
Uncivil Society as a Memory Shaping Work - Stephen Kotkin
No Answer (for the Economic Dynamism and Civic Freedoms of post-WWII Western Europe)
REVIEWS
