Totalitarianism and the Prospects for World Order: Closing the Door on the Twentieth CenturyA remarkably prescient thinker, Aleksandras Shtromas devoted his life to understanding totalitarianism and political change. This posthumous collection of writings, edited by Robert Faulkner and Daniel J. Mahoney, addresses some of the topics that preoccupied Shtromas throughout his life, including totalitarian regimes, postcommunist transitions, the fates of the Baltic states, and the nature of political revolutions. |
Contents
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Statement to Contemporary Authors | 3 |
The Authors Testimony to the Baltic Tribunal Against the Soviet Union | 5 |
To My StudentsPast Present and Future | 9 |
Have Pity on the Hangman | 11 |
LOOKING BACK AT THE MAIN CHALLENGE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY OVERCOMING TOTALITARIANISM | 17 |
The Jewish and Gentile Experience of the Holocaust A Personal Perspective | 21 |
Making Sense of Stalin | 39 |
The Soviet Method of Conquest of the Baltic States Lessons for the West | 239 |
The Baltic States as Soviet Republics Tensions and Contradictions | 271 |
How Political are the Social Movements in the Baltic Republics? | 299 |
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON REVOLUTION AND POLITICAL CHANGE | 307 |
How Revolutions Proceed | 311 |
Political Change and Political Collapse | 333 |
LOOKING TOWARD THE CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT CENTURY | 347 |
The Strategy for Peace in a Changing World | 351 |
MarxismLeninism in the USSR | 57 |
To Fight Communism Why and How? | 75 |
The Inevitable Collapse of Socialism | 99 |
Dissent Nationalism and the Soviet Future | 113 |
On Totalitarianism and the Prospects for Institutionalized Revolution in the USSR and China | 127 |
Ideology and Conflict Does Warfare Between Isms Belong to Past History? | 145 |
POSTCOMMUNIST TRANSITIONS | 181 |
The Transition to a Free Market System The Hillsdale Plan and the Other Plans | 185 |
What Should Be the Next Stage in the Process of Russian Reform? | 209 |
To Expand Beyond Enlargement A Few Thoughts on Preserving NATOs Original Identity without Hindering Its Transformation into a EuroAtlantic ... | 223 |
THE BALTIC PENDULUM | 237 |
The Future World Order and the Right of Nations to SelfDetermination and Sovereignty | 365 |
What Is Peace and How Could It Be Achieved? | 395 |
Nations States and World Peace Rejoinder | 425 |
Competing Identities as Shapers of Personal Political Consciousness The Collective Self on the Eve of the TwentyFirst Century | 445 |
Universal Values vs Local Preferences and Guilt Complexes in Transition to Global Education | 455 |
Bibliography of Aleksandras Shtromas | 469 |
Index | 479 |
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About the Editors | 493 |
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