CONTENTS
Editorial: Ivaylo Znepolski, Challenges facing the comparative studies of communism
MAIN TOPIC: Comparative History of Communism in Eastern Europe: Methods and Objects
- Michael Werner, Compare, Comparison
- Christoph Boyer, Communist Apparatuses and Regime-Society Relation
- Pavel Kolář, Transnational and Global History and the Study of Communism
- Miroslav Novák, Les spécialistes des sciences sociales et les prévisions de la chute des régimes communistes
- Martin K. Dimitrov, 1989 in China and Eastern Europe in Diachronic Perspective
- Dieter Segert, Challenges of a Social and Cultural History of the Intellectual Service Classes in Late Socialism (1956-1989)
- Sabina Mihelj, Comparing Socialist Television Cultures: The “Screening Socialism” Project
- Jan Skórzyński, The Doctrine of Non-Interference
- Ádám Takács, System Paradigm and Historical Comparison: The Case of János Kornai’s The Socialist System
- Tomáš Vilímek , Oldřich Tůma, “Socialist management” in Czechoslovakia – Conflict and Reconciliation
- Dariusz Stola, State-Society Relationships: Relations from Non-Exit Policy to Socialist Schengen and the Erosion of Control in Transnational Spaces
- Thomas Lindenberger, Unfit for Comparison? East German State Socialism as a “Case” of Industrial Society
THE LOGIC OF CHANGE
- Plamen Doynov, The Algorithm of Change
- Rayna Gavrilova, An Intellectual Postmortem: Bleak, Revolting, and Very Much Needed
- Georgi Lozanov, Communism and Social Sciences: Resistance as a Struggle for Individual Academic Autonomy. The Magnificent Seven on the Screen of Socialism.
- Georgi Kapriev, Six Collages after “How Things Change” by Ivaylo Znepolski
- Ivailo Znepolski, On This Book’s Nature and Objective
IN MEMORIAM
- Stoyan Atanassov, Tzvetan Todorov – In Memoriam
- Tzvetan Todorov, Deux approches des sciences humaines. Lévi-Strauss et Germaine Tillion
BOOK REVIEW
- Stoyan Atanassov, Le journal d’Edgar Morin