Overview
This book is a tribute to the memory of Victor Zaslavsky (1937–2009), sociologist, émigré from the Soviet Union, Canadian citizen, public intellectual, and keen observer of Eastern Europe. In seventeen essays leading European, American and Russian scholars discuss the theory and the history of totalitarian society with a comparative approach. They revisit and reassess what Zaslavsky considered the most important project in the latter part of his life: the analysis of Eastern European - especially Soviet societies and their difficult “transition” after the fall of communism in 1989–91. The variety of the contributions reflects the diversity of specialists in the volume, but also reveals Zaslavsky's gift: he surrounded himself with talented people from many different fields and disciplines. In line with Zaslavsky's work and scholarly method, the book promotes new theoretical and methodological approaches to the concept of totalitarianism for understanding Soviet and East European societies, and the study of fascist and communist regimes in general.
Full Product Details
Author: Riccardo James Vargiu ,
Tommaso Piffer ,
Vladislav Zubok
Publisher: Central European University Press
Imprint: Central European University Press
Weight: 0.720kg
ISBN: 9789633861301
ISBN 10: 9633861306
Pages: 442
Publication Date: 15 May 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.
Reviews
"""This fascinating volume of essays reminds me of Victor Zaslavsky himself: smart, sophisticated, engaging, and provocative. The authors also reflect Zaslavsky's own world, which included the very best in Russian, European, and American scholarship in a variety of disciplines. These articles on the Soviet past, totalitarianism, and the transition to the post-Soviet world contain fresh insights into this history, and at the same time provide warnings about the present and the future."" --Norman M. Naimark"
""This fascinating volume of essays reminds me of Victor Zaslavsky himself: smart, sophisticated, engaging, and provocative. The authors also reflect Zaslavsky's own world, which included the very best in Russian, European, and American scholarship in a variety of disciplines. These articles on the Soviet past, totalitarianism, and the transition to the post-Soviet world contain fresh insights into this history, and at the same time provide warnings about the present and the future."" --Norman M. Naimark
Author Information
Tommaso Piffer is the Bodossakis Research Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge and an affiliate of the Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Vladislav Zubok is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. Among his publications are Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin (with Eric Shiraev, Palgrave Press, 2000); Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Harvard University Press, 2009); The Idea of Russia. The Life and the Works of Dmitry Likhachev (I. B. Tauris, 2016).
