The organismic view of society is updated by incorporating concepts from cybernetics, evolutionary theory, and complex adaptive systems. Global society can be seen as an autopoietic network of self-producing components, and therefore as a living system or “superorganism”. Miller’s living systems theory suggests a list of functional components for society’s metabolism and nervous system. Powers’...

The musical underground as an art testifying what is outside the framework of Soviet cultural mainstream 1980s and 1990s to various extent considered in article. It proved that concept correlates with notion alternative official party scene totalitarianism, often confused related sixties. emphasized a form protest art, art. determined can be, fact, political, aesthetic, artistic. characterizes ...

The paper reveals the main problems and prerequisites to formation of GULAG (Chief Administration Corrective Labour Camps) in 1920s. specificity this period history is described detail. author utilizes an extensive material letters, diaries other private sources. analysis statistical data allows trace trends totalitarian system Stalinism. On example SLON (Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp), shows...

The purpose of the article is to present scientific biography Professor Jerzy Wojciech Borejsza, an expert on history 19th and 20th centuries, characterise his achievements views historiography. Borejsza was one most prominent experts in Polish revolutionary movement emigration after January Uprising. Later, he interested Italian fascism, Adolf Hitler’s worldview, including attitude towards Sla...

The article concerns the novel Plague (1989) by Valeriy Shevchuk, in which author explores motif of epidemic. In novel, epidemic is a metaphor for lack historical and cultural memory caused an oppressive political system. Presented as form national amnesia, it serves background reflection on post-totalitarian heritage contemporary Ukrainian society. Shevchuk’s based documents, but not work lite...

The place of student youth in the general picture ideological confrontation between Ukrainian national liberation movement and Soviet authorities Western Ukraine postwar period is studied. participation students higher educational institutions region Resistance to Stalinist totalitarian system was analyzed. scientific novelty article consists analysis OUN for influencing western regions SSR. In...

Under the immediate appearance of a simple prose, Orwell’s masterpiece Nineteen Eighty–Four is a philosophical understanding of dictatorship, which is still relevant nowadays as a source of reflections about power. Indeed, the book was regarded by the dissident intellectuals of the East as a “realistic and detailed analysis of the mechanisms of power”1, rather than as just a novel. The device t...