The evolution of romanian communism: from Stalin`s totalitarianism to Nicolae`s Ceausescu national-communism

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 ...

From Labour to National Ideals: Ending the War in Asia Minor—Controlling Communism in Greece

This paper will try to shed light on a very particular angle of Greek political geography after the end of the Asia Minor War. As a result of this conflict almost 1.3 million refugees fled to Greece and changed dramatically its political space. The traditional view among the scholars of the period promotes an “exceptionalism” of the Greek-Orthodox refugees who fled to Greece after 1922. It is a...

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

On the stylistic evolution from communism to democracy: Solomon Marcus study case

In this article we propose a stylistic analysis of Solomon Marcus’ publicistics, gathered in six volumes, aiming to uncover some of his quantitative and qualitative fingerprints. Moreover, we compare and cluster two distinct periods of time in his writing style: 22 years of communist regime (1967-1989) and 27 years of democracy (1990-2016). The distributional analysis of Marcus’ text reveals th...