Erweiterte Fassung eines Vortrags am Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung Dresden.

Der Vortrag wurde am 22.05.1995 in Dresden am Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung e.V. an der TU Dresden gehalten.

Entnommen aus: „Ludz, Ursula: Zu dieser Veröffentlichung” (S.9): „Mit der vorliegenden Veröffentlichung wird also eine Rückblende auf die „Ursprünge“ von Hannah Arendts Totalitarismusanalyse vorgeschlagen. Beide, die selbst entfernten Textstücke aus der ersten Auflage des Totalitarismusbuches und die Antwort an Eric Voegelin, sind aufschlußreiche Dokumente, um Arendts Totalitarismustheorie und deren Entwicklung genauer kennenzulernen und zu beurteilen...”

The thesis Yugoslavia in the context of totalitarian and authoritarian countries deals with the characteristics of the governing regime of SFRY. In the first chapter, the terms "totalitarianism" and "authoritarianism" are defined. In the following chapters, the thesis observes the development of socialist Yugoslavia throughout the individual periods concerned, and classifies the dominant features of the regime. Historical facts are based on works of J. Pelican and J. Pirejvec, the theory of political science is based on works of S.Balík and R.Dahl. The aim of the work is to determine, in what respects was the government's policy influenced by historical events, as well as to describe the essence of Yugoslavian regime.

The diploma thesis focuses on the analysis of the selected protectorate and socialist propaganda posters from the forties and early fifties of the 20th century. The analyzed period ends with year 1953. This particular piece of work strives to set the whole subject in a larger theoretical framework. Furthermore the characteristic features of the given ideologies, the theory of semiotics and a brief description of the given historical period is also encompassed. Within the theory of semiotics the main inspiration is drawn from the works of Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Sanders Peirce and Charles Morris. The most crucial source for the semiotic analysis is the book Mythology from Roland Barthes, especially its second theoretical part of Myth today, from which the methodological approach was gathered. The semiotic analysis allows one to uncover and expose the hidden meanings of texts. Ten posters were chosen in total for the analysis, five from the protectorate era and five from the late forties and early fifties. This was carried out in order to juxtapose pairs of images which portray the same motif or theme. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the applied semiotic components of the individual posters and then to compare the respective motifs and elements within the two ideologies and the extent to...

Zugl.: Dresden, Techn. Univ., 2006

Zugl.: Vechta, Hochsch., Diss., 2007

Univ., Diss.--Turku.

The work focuses on the issue of revisionism of Soviet history in Anglo-Saxon historiography. The aim is to analyze the causes and circumstances of Revizionism, its origins and the character of the dispute between revisionist and totalitarianist interpretation of Soviet history. It also deals with the question of whether one of the interpretations has achieved dominance in its field. Key Words Revisionism, totalitarism, historiography, Cold War, Soviet Union

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