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Original publisher’s sewn blue & white paperback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: 326pp., [24]pp., introduction, 11 contributions, footnotes & references, table of contents. CONTRIBUTIONS: Achim Siegel: Introduction. The Changing Fortunes of the Totalitarian Paradigm in Communist Studies. 1. Klaus von Beyme: The Concept of Totalitarianism – A Reassessment after the End of Communist Rule. 2. Klaus Mueller: East European Studies, Neo-Totalitarianism and Social Science Theory. 3. Leszek Nowak: A Conception that is Supposed to Correspond to the Totalitarian Approach to Realsocialism. 4. Ernst Nolte: The Three Versions of the Theory of Totalitarianism and the Significance of the Historical-Genetic Version. 5. Eckhard Jesse: The Two Major Instances of Totalitarianism: Observations on the Interconnection between Soviet Communism and National Socialism. 6. Johann P. Arnason: Totalitarianism and Modernity: Franz Borkenau’s Totalitarian Enemy as a Source of Sociological Theorizing on Totalitarianism. 7. Alfons Söllner: Sigmund Neumann’s Permanent Revolution: A Forgotten Classic of Comparative Research into Modern Dictatorships. 8. Friedrich Pohlmann: The “Seeds of Destruction” in Totalitarian Systems. An Interpretation of the Unity of Hannah Arendt’s Political Philosophy. 9. Werner J. Patzelt: Reality Construction under Totalitarianism: An Ethnomethodological Elaboration of Martin Draht’s Concept of Totalitarianism. 10. Achim Siegel: Carl Joachim Friedrich’s Concept of Totalitarian Dictatorship. A Reinterpretation. 11. Mark R. Thompson: Neither Totalitarian nor Authoritarian: Post-Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. Very fine copy – as new. Volume 65: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities.