The latest volume of the international academic Journal DIVINATIO published by the University of Sofia’s Department of Cultural Studies in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Societe (Sofia) and the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past gathers all papers presented at the International conference “The Totalitarianisms of the 20th Century in Comparative Perspective“, November 28 – 29, 2009 in Sofia.
This volume of Divinatio is made possible thanks to the kind support of:
- Stiftung Bulgarische Hochschulfoerderung (Frankfurt – Sofia)
- Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris) and
- CEE Trust Bulgaria
CONTENTS
DOSSIER: 20TH CENTURY TOTALITARIANISMS IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Editorial: The Totalitarian Legacy of the 20th Century and its Reception Today
I. Totalitarian Regimes and Totalitarian Theory
- Claude Lefort: La voie de mes réfl exions sur le totalitarisme
- Bernard Bruneteau: Towards the Origins of Totalitarian Theory: The Anticipations of the Thirties
- Stéphane Courtois: Communism, the Opening of the Archives and the Concept of Totalitarianism
- Nikos Marantzidis: A Stillborn Totalitarianism: Building a Communist State in Greece, 1943-1945
- Mark Kramer: Stalin, Soviet Policy, and the Consolidation of a Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1944-1953
II. The Totalitarian Regimes in Eastern Europe after Stalin’s Death
- Ivaylo Znepolski The Political Nature of “Real Socialism”
- Ádám Takács: Totalitarianism as an Atmosphere. Morality and Mentality in Hungary under the Kádár Regime
- Stanislav Balík and Jan Holzer: The Concept of Totalitarianism – Czech Refl ections and Inspirations
- Victor Neumann: The Concept of Totalitarianism in the Romanian Social-Political Languages
- Dariusz Stola: The Communist Regime as a Process: ‘People’s Poland’: from Imitation to De-Totalitarization
- Ulf Brunnbauer: “Everybody Believes the State Should Do Everything for Them”. An Essay on State-Society Relations in Communist Bulgaria
III. Totalitarianism – Past, Present and Future
- Pierre Hassner: Is Totalitarianism Dead?
- Antonio Elorza: Totalitarianism and Totalism
DEBATES
How can we write the History of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria?
- Ivaylo Znepolski: About the Book
- Blagovest Niagulov: How to Write a History of the Recent Past: Refl ections on a Contemporary Historiography Debate
- Boyko Penchev A History of Totalitarian Power and Care
BOOK REVIEWS
- Michail Gruev: Socialist Bulgaria Seen through the Refl ections of Memory
- Ivaylo Znepolski: The East-Orthodox Church and the Communist Regime in Bulgaria
- Ivaylo Znepolski: Merab Mamardashvili or about the Borders of Intellectual Dissidence during the Soviet Era