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The City of Jerusalem
The author writes from the experience of thirty years working in the Jerusalem municipality, including 21 years as a public official and ten years as an elected councilor representing the left-wing Meretz party. This book is born from an urgent need to understand the mechanisms articulating the city in which I live, which I love and for which I suffer. I am from Jerusalem, I could not live in another city and the barbarities my government is perpetrating on the Palestinian parts of the city do not allow me to remain quiet. Through this book I engage with the prevailing model of power and repression and the neo-colonial system that expresses its perverse functioning. This book is centered on ...
Akteure oder Profiteure?
In allen ostmitteleuropäischen Ländern traten im Herbst 1989 politische Akteure, die aus dissidentischen Milieus hervorgegangen waren, in den Vordergrund des politischen Geschehens. Ihre Bedeutung für die politischen Umbruchprozesse ist jedoch bis heute umstritten. Die Länderstudien und vergleichenden Analysen aus diesem Band zeigen, dass ungeachtet der oberflächlichen Ähnlichkeiten die Strategiefähigkeit der demokratischen Opposition im Herbst 1989 erheblich zwischen den Ländern variierte und in starkem Maße durch den jeweiligen nationalen Typ kommunistischer Herrschaft, die Vorgeschichte politisch alternativer Bestrebungen sowie den Modus des Regimewechsels beeinflusst war.
The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or: John Dewey Meets Ceauşescu
How can democracy be learned? And how successful are we at teaching and learning it?This book does three things: First, it explains why civic education is important for the growth and survival of (any type of) democracy. Second, it focuses on a particular country, which is in many ways representative for the general problems of post-communist transition to democracy. It carefully examines the practical reality of civic education in Romania both at the level of general schooling and in higher education. Emphasis lies on the ways in which the ideals of civic education clash with post-communist realities and on the obstacles that continue to exist in this transition country to the democratic em...
Stalinism for All Seasons
This history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) traces its origins as a tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s, to its years in national power from 1944 to 1989, and to the post-1989 metamorphoses.
Balkan kao metafora
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Beyond Totalitarianism
These essays rethink the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. They offer a new understanding of the intertwined trajectories of socialism and nationalism in European and global history.
Romania
Proceedings of a symposium organized by Freedom House.
Seven Days on the Roads of France, June 1940
At the height of World War II, Lossky joined the massive exodus from Paris before the advancing German Army. In his diary of the upheaval, this theologian of Orthodox mysticism reflects on civilization, war, and the place of Christianity in East and West.
