Keywords: Practice Theories
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Keywords: Historical Hermeneutics
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MAIN TOPIC: IS DEMOCRACY SICK OF ITS OWN MEDIA?
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BOOK REVIEWS
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The Clear, Present and Positive Goals of Occupy Wall Street
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Student Movement and the Question of Political Emancipation in Hungary
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A careful reader will notice that "History of the PRB" actually questions two popular myths or clichés attached to our communist past. The first one is the easy generalization that “This is the time when the Party was in power.” This is no doubt true, but what was “the Party” really?
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To put it shortly, if, as I shall argue, the central dimension of totalitarianism is criminal violence or the concept of politics as a perpetual war, then we are amazed both by the intensity of totalitarian violence under Lenin and Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, and by the absence of violence in Gorbachev’s capitulation on the foreign front and in the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union itself.
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The distinction between totalitarianism and totalism does not exclude a high degree of convergence, most notably when the totalism dynamic constitutes an element of support within a regime that is institutionally totalitarian such as those of the People’s Republic of China and Cuba. If one can speak of a sliding towards or away from totalism in cases such as these, one can also note a fusion with the goals aspired to in classic totalitarianism, especially with respect to establishing a homogeneous society in which pluralism and opposing points of view have been eliminated.
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BOOK REVIEWS: This Is My Past. Recollections, Diaries, Testimonies (1944–1989), vol. I-II. Ed. Ivaylo Znepolski, Sofi a, Institute for Studies of the Recent Past, „Ciela”, 2010, 439+425 p.
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Since the change of 10 November 1989, a number of books have been published dealing with different years, events and problems of the half-century period of communist rule in Bulgaria...
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