{"title":"Vladimir Tismaneanu","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"fantasies-of-salvation-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780691144382","title":"Fantasies of Salvation","description":"Eastern Europe has become an ideological battleground since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with liberals and authoritarians struggling to seize the ground lost by Marxism. This book traces the intellectual history of this struggle and warns that authoritarian nationalists pose a serious threat to democratic forces.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577431040273,"sku":"GOR013523766","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361483854097,"sku":"CIN0691144389G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0691144389.jpg?v=1750847895"},{"product_id":"one-hundred-years-of-communist-experiments-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9789633864050","title":"One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy has communism's humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin’s coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the varieties of communist fantasies of salvation, and the remaining three consider how communist experiments over many different times and regions attempted to manage economics, politics, as well as society and culture. Although each communist project was adapted to the situation of the country where it operated, the studies in this volume find that because of its ideological nature, communism had a consistent penchant for totalitarianism in all of its manifestations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is also concerned with the future. As the world witnesses a new wave of ideological authoritarianism and collectivistic projects, the authors of the nineteen essays suggest lessons from their analyses of communism’s past to help better resist totalitarian projects in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743306686737,"sku":"NGR9789633864050","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50397790601489,"sku":"CIN9633864054G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9633864054.jpg?v=1759509556"},{"product_id":"devil-in-history-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780520239722","title":"The Devil in History","description":"Offers an analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. This title examines the ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, and their legacies in contemporary politics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50227764560145,"sku":"CIN0520239725VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50229808070929,"sku":"CIN0520239725G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521200382225,"sku":"NLS9780520239722","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520239725.jpg?v=1750975742"},{"product_id":"devil-in-history-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780520282209","title":"The Devil in History","description":"The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author's personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth century's experiments in social engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and occasionally strikingly similar systems of political totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, the place of violence within these systems, and their legacies in contemporary politics.  The author discusses thinkers who have shaped contemporary understanding of totalitarian movements--people such as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, Francois Furet, Tony Judt, Ian Kershaw, Leszek Kolakowski, Richard Pipes, and Robert C. Tucker.\nAs much a theoretical analysis of the practical philosophies of Marxism-Leninism and Fascism as it is a political biography of particular figures, this book deals with the incarnation of diabolically nihilistic principles of human subjugation and conditioning in the name of presumably pure and purifying goals. Ultimately, the author claims that no ideological commitment, no matter how absorbing, should ever prevail over the sanctity of human life. He comes to the conclusion that no party, movement, or leader holds the right to dictate to the followers to renounce their critical faculties and to embrace a pseudo-miraculous, a mystically self-centered, delusional vision of mandatory happiness.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50281583051025,"sku":"CIN0520282205VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521246060817,"sku":"NLS9780520282209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520282205.jpg?v=1751166895"},{"product_id":"eastern-europe-after-communism-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780029326053","title":"Eastern Europe After Communism","description":"Gives an account of East European politics from the time of Soviet domination to the 1989-90 revolutions, and considers the effect of tyranny on East European culture and politics, the chances for successful and harmonious development in the region, and its relationship with the rest of Europe.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50342530416913,"sku":"CIN0029326052G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52521001353489,"sku":"CIN0029326052VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0029326052.jpg?v=1750693277"},{"product_id":"revolutions-of-1989-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780415169509","title":"The Revolutions of 1989","description":"This collection of both classic and recent articles examines the causes and consequences of the collapse of communism in East and Central Europe, the most important event in recent world history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50762057482513,"sku":"CIN041516950XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51250681413905,"sku":"GOR003009689","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52332587188497,"sku":"NLS9780415169509","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53070846918929,"sku":"GOR008746953","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/041516950X.jpg?v=1751039354"},{"product_id":"stalinism-revisited-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9789639776630","title":"Stalinism Revisited","description":"Examines the period of communist takeover and high Stalinism in Eastern Europe (1945-1955), characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based on radical transformism and cultural revolution.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51066329071889,"sku":"NIN9789639776630","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51456253034769,"sku":"GOR014286739","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9639776637.jpg?v=1751129066"},{"product_id":"reinventing-politics-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780029326060","title":"Reinventing Politics","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51450147832081,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51450148126993,"sku":"GOR014284744","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0029326060.jpg?v=1750693278"},{"product_id":"crisis-of-marxist-ideology-in-eastern-europe-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9781032458625","title":"The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1988, \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe \u003c\/i\u003estates that since de-Stalinisation began in Eastern Europe, the ‘dead hand’ of institutional Marxism has been eroded by revisionist Marxism, with the turn to young Marx and the philosophy of human emancipation to undermine prevailing orthodoxies. But this revisionism clung to the old socialist dogmas and refused a total break with the system, and the effort eventually failed. The result was the emergence of a dissident counterculture rejecting the system entirely. Independent social movements (such as unofficial peace groups and trade unions like Solidarity) have given this counterculture a major role in Eastern Europe, whilst the ruling elites have responded with confusion. Tismaneanu concludes that the only hope for the anti-totalitarian intellectuals of Eastern Europe is to oppose the regimes with non-Marxist ideas – otherwise they will be permanently reduced to the status of a hopeless, albeit heroic minority. This book will be of interest to students of economics, political science and international relations. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51596960858385,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51596961153297,"sku":"NGR9781032458625","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032458623.jpg?v=1751238314"},{"product_id":"fantasies-of-salvation-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780691048260","title":"Fantasies of Salvation","description":"Eastern Europe has become an ideological battleground since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with liberals and authoritarians struggling to seize the ground lost by Marxism. This work traces the intellectual history of this struggle and warns that authoritarian nationalists pose a serious threat to democratic forces.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51851789402385,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51851789598993,"sku":"CIN0691048266G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780691048260.jpg?v=1753655968"},{"product_id":"revolutions-of-1989-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780415169493","title":"The Revolutions of 1989","description":"This collection of both classic and recent articles examines the causes and consequences of the collapse of communism in East and Central Europe, the most important event in recent world history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52134467502353,"sku":"NLS9780415169493","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780415169493.jpg?v=1757541792"},{"product_id":"reinventing-politics-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780743212823","title":"Reinventing Politics","description":"“Using primary materials from Eastern European democratic movements, Tismaneanu shows how dissident enclaves, grassroots political groups, independent unions and underground initiatives spearheaded the spontaneous outbursts of discontent that led to the nonviolent collapse of communist dictatorships…In an illuminating, exciting comparative analysis of the breakup of the Soviet Union's outer empire, Tismaneanu …identifies bureaucratic inertia, renascent authoritarian tendencies and the lure of populist adventurers as key obstacles to democracy.” —Publishers Weekly","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52137099297041,"sku":"NLS9780743212823","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52739907223825,"sku":"NIN9780743212823","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780743212823.jpg?v=1757556719"},{"product_id":"in-search-of-civil-society-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780415866729","title":"In Search of Civil Society","description":"In a time of massive social transformation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, worldwide attention has been focused on the growth of independent peace movements in this region. In Search of Civil Society  is the first comprehensive analysis of the progressive social movements that are proving vital to the expansion of grassroots civil societies.    The volume presents case studies of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Written by some of the best-informed scholars in Eastern European studies, many of them dissidents and activists, these essays analyze the current status of civil societies. The contributors tackle a host of related issues and concerns: dissent, non-violence, intra- and anti-systemic opposition, post-Stalinism, conscientious objection, and human rights. Moving beyond the arena of politics, the volume also examines the various ways peace movements are affecting cultural and moral life in these societies. Through a combination of first-hand information and scholarly interpretations, these changes are examined in view of the movement of Communist society towards pluralism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52543272780049,"sku":"NLS9780415866729","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780415866729.jpg?v=1760689964"},{"product_id":"debates-on-the-future-of-communism-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9781349117857","title":"Debates on the Future of Communism","description":"A collection of essays analyzing the future of communism in the light of contemporary reforms. A number of critical intellectuals who have personally experienced the communist system, present a number of analyses ranging from the optimistic to the foreboding.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52584991850769,"sku":"NLS9781349117857","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52748171870481,"sku":"NIN9781349117857","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781349117857.jpg?v=1761051786"},{"product_id":"stalinism-revisited-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9789639776555","title":"Stalinism Revisited","description":"Examines the period of communist takeover and high Stalinism in Eastern Europe (1945-1955), characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based on radical transformism and cultural revolution.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52700765389073,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52700765683985,"sku":"GOR014584412","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789639776555.jpg?v=1762514272"},{"product_id":"between-past-and-future-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9789639116719","title":"Between Past and Future","description":"The tenth anniversary of the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe is the basis for this text which reflects upon the past ten years and what lies ahead for the future. An international group of academics and public intellectuals, including former dissidents and active politicians, engage in an exchange on the antecedents, causes, contexts, meanings and legacies of the 1989 revolutions. The contributors address various issues including liberal democracy and its enemies; modernity and discontent; economic reforms and their social impact; ethnicity; nationalism and religion; geopolitics; electoral systems and political power; European integration; and the demise of Yugoslavia.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53511178682641,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53511179206929,"sku":"CIN9639116718G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789639116719.jpg?v=1778189422"},{"product_id":"stalinism-for-all-seasons-book-vladimir-tismaneanu-9780520237476","title":"Stalinism for All Seasons","description":"Presents history of the Romanian Communist Party. This title traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521410457873,"sku":"NLS9780520237476","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520237476.jpg?v=1778452726"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-vladimir-tismaneanu.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}