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in cooperation with
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Deutschcs
Hlstorisches InMitut
Warsrhau I Niemiecki
Inslytut Historyczny
w Warszawie I
Berghahn Books
New York Oxford
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PAN
Contents
Preface ix
Introduction
11. The Short- and Long-term Effects of the Authoritarian Regime and of 188
Nazism in Austria: the Burden of a 'Second Dictatorship'
Gerhard Botz
12. Stabilisation of Power through Social and Consumer Policy in the GDR 209
Christoph Boyer
13. 'Better Known for Its Fascists Than Its Democrats': Croatia's Experience 228
with Ideologies in the Twentieth Century
Andrea Feldman
14. Authoritarian Rule in Greece (1936-1974) and Its Heritage 237
Hagen Fleischer
18. The Nature and Perspectives of Bolshevism through the RSDWP 330
(Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party) Leaders' Vision
Dmitry B. Pavlov
19. King Alexander, Ante Pavelic and Josip Broz-Tito: Three Experiments 343
in Totalitarianism
Joze Pirjevec
20. Right-wing Radicalism in Contemporary Poland 354
Szymon Rudnicki
Contents vii
21. From Fascism to Democracy: the Birth of the Political System of the 373
Italian Republic
Nicola Tranfaglia
22. The Strange Paradox: Vichy after Vichy 384
Olivier Wieviorka
23. Criminal Law as a Reaction to System Crime: Policy for Dealing with 399
the Past in European Transitions
Jorg Arnold
24. Opening of Files and Public Access to Them: an Important Contribution 431
to Dealing with Communist Dictatorship
Joachim Gauck
25. Poland after 1945 and after 1989: Problems of Law Making 438
Hubert Izdebski
26. Have We Succeeded in Coming to Terms with the Past? A Comparison of 449
National Socialism and the German Democratic Republic
Eckhard Jesse
27. Historical Memory and Legislative Changes in Romania 464
Andrei Pippidi
28. From Policy to Memory: How the Federal Republic of Germany Dealt 481
with the Nazi Legacy
Norbert Frei
29. Remembering the Dictatorship: Commemorative Activity in the Spanish 490
Press on the Anniversaries of the Civil War and of the Death of Franco
Carsten Httmlebxk
31. First There Was Oblivion: Collective Remembrances of the First Years 525
of Soviet Power in Russia in 1922 (Ural Study 1917-22)
Igor V. Narsky
viii Contents
Index 587