Ebook: The Totalitarian Paradigm After the End of Communism: Towards a Theoretical Reassessment
Author: Achim Siegel (ed.)
- Genre: Other Social Sciences
- Series: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 65
- Year: 1998
- Publisher: Brill / Rodopi
- Language: English
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Concepts of totalitarianism have undergone an academic revival in recent years, particularly since the breakdown of communist systems in Europe in 1989-91: the totalitarian paradigm, so it seems to many scholars today, had been discarded prematurely in the heat of the Cold War. The demise of communism as a social system is, however, not only an important cause of the recurring attractiveness of the totalitarian paradigm, but provides at the same time new evidence and, correspondingly, new problems of explanation for all approaches in communist studies and totalitarianism theory in particular. This book contains articles by philosophers, social scientists and historians who reassess the validity of the totalitarian approach in the light of the recent historical developments in Eastern Europe. A first group of authors focus on the analytical usefulness and explanatory power of classic concepts of totalitarianism after having observed the failed reforms of the Gorbachev-era and the collap
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