Communism, Post-Communism, and Democracy

Rethinking Migration Regimes: Lesson of Post-Communism

Recent thinking about migration regimes is often defined by an object-subject divide and focuses on aspects of regulation by state and non-state actor. If considered at all, migrants are mere challenges to the regime. Historiography often further reduces this approach and uses “migration regime” as a vague metaphor for state-centered sets of regulations, often only administration. In opposition...

The fallacy of communism.

Marxism after communism

It is with apprehension but also conviction that I defend Marxism today1apprehension because we live in a period that is suspicious of visions of alternative futures, skeptical of grand historical narrative, dismissive of materialist explanations, rejecting of class analysis while tolerating capitalism's defects and pathologies as unavoidable and natural; conviction because we live in a period ...

Truth Commissions in Post-Communism: The Overlooked Solution?

Despite their increased popularity in Latin America, Africa and Asia, truth commissions have remained an overlooked solution to coming to terms with the recent human rights abuses perpetrated in communist Europe. Since the start of the democratization process in the early 1990s, only Germany, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Romania have employed truth commissions as meth...

COMMUNISM ’ S POSTHUMOUS TRIAL THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM : CRIMES , TERROR , REPRESSION . By Stéphane