List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Historians Reassess Totalitarianism Theory Manuela L. Ungureanu Part I: Main Paradigms and their Evolving Fortunes Chapter 1. Remarks on the Historiography of Rapid Political and Social Change Daniel Little Chapter 2. Carl Friedrich's Path to "Totalitarianism" Stephen Turner Chapter 3. Soviet Society, Social Structure, and Everyday Life: Major Frameworks Reconsidered Mark Edele Chapter 4. The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern Dictatorship Jürgen Kocka Chapter 5. Totalitarian Syndrome as a Case of an Essentially Contested Concept: An Overview of Discussions Held in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Poland Krzysztof Brzechczyn Chapter 6. Framing the Rising Discontent with Totalitarianism Theory: The View from Social Ontology Manuela L.
Ungureanu Chapter 7. Totalitarianism and the Historians Charles Turner Chapter 8. Why I say "Totalitarian Regimes": A Response to Totalitarianism Denial Aviezer Tucker Part II: Approaches to Control, Legitimation of Power and Forms of Resistance Chapter 9. Beyond Totalitarianism: Rethinking Approaches to the GDR and the Nazi Past Mary Fulbrook Chapter 10. The Soviets Abroad: The NKVD, Intelligence, and State Building in East-Central Europe after World War II Molly Pucci Chapter 11. Postwar Show Trials: The Apogee of Totalitarianism or Political Processes? Barbara J. Falk Chapter 12. The Communist Public Sphere: A Sociolegal Analysis Mihaela serban Chapter 13.
Industrialization, Independence, Identity: Legitimation of Power in Communist Romania, 1965-1971 Dragos Petrescu Chapter 14. Homo Sovieticus and the Greengrocer: On Varieties of Dissident Critique of Post-Totalitarian Political Culture Piotr Wcislik Chapter 15. On the Origins of "Totalita": A Social Epistemology of a Non-Concept Muriel Blaive Part III: Soviet-Style Institutions for Higher-Education and Research and the Powers of the New Elites Chapter 16. The Counterintuitive Effects of Soviet Totalitarianism: Soviet Universities during Late Stalinism, 1945-1953 Benjamin Tromly Chapter 17. Sergei Vavilov and the Soviet Modes of Science Production Alexei Kojevnikov Chapter 18. A Friendship Inside Romanian Academia under Cultural Stalinism: Mihai Ralea and Tudor Vianu Cristian Vasile Chapter 19. Gatekeeping Institutions of Literary Translation in Soviet Ukraine Valentyna Savchyn Chapter 20. Intellectual Autonomy in Socialist Romania: Theories, Methods, and the Case Study of Sociology after 1966 Adela Hîncu Chapter 21.
Writing Contemporary History in Late Socialist Hungary: Dissecting Institutional Legacies Réka Krizmanics Chapter 22. "The Tale of Two Cities": The Historical Multicultural Bucharest Vs. the Communist Capital of Romania Cristina Petrescu Afterword: The Makings of Rethinking the Historiography of the Soviet Bloc or How to Take Stock of an Elephant, and Still Keep Your Bearings Manuela L. Ungureanu Index.