The aim of the journal is to contribute
to the study of totalitarian ideologies and regimes in Europe in the 20th
century, especially based on primary archival and oral sources, on content
analysis of the discourse of the totalitarian regimes, but also on new
theoretical framework coming from such subfields of history as intellectual
history, the history of ideas as well as political science, sociology and
anthropology. The term totalitarian is understood here in a broader sense and
refers to such political ideologies and regimes like Communism and Fascism (of
which Nazism was one of the versions) that tried to impose a total control on
society, including on private life. From this perspective it is less important
that all these tentative to control all aspects of societal and individual life
failed, it is more important the extent to which these regimes succeeded in
their endeavours. Totalitarian covers also other regimes that practiced
repressions and justified the use of violence at mass and individual level for
political purposes (Gulag and Holocaust). It is particular interesting to
differentiate the discourse and practices of the totalitarian regimes and
democratic ones. The two types of regimes should be seen however not as
essences, but rather as Weberian ideal-types. In other words, as Giovanni
Sartori expressed it aptly, there are no pure democratic regimes and pure
authoritarian/totalitarian regimes; there are regimes with democratic
tendencies and regimes with authoritarian/totalitarian tendencies. In this
sense, the articles and book reviews on topics related to the challenges from
totalitarian and authoritarian regimes to democracy are also welcome.
Last, but not least, Dystopia will pay a special attention also to commonalities and
differences between various national versions of Communism and Fascism,
relations between Communist states, between Fascist regimes and between the
former and the latter.
The articles are accepted
in English, French and Russian. The recommended length of articles is minimum
30 000 signs without counting the space between words and maximum
60 000 signs. The references to sources should be made in footnotes,
according to the following model: for chapters from a collective volume – Victor Zaslavsky, “Collapse of Empire – causes: Soviet Union”, in Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen, eds., After Empire. Multiethnic Societies and
Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empires,
Boulder, Co.: Westview, 1997, p. 73; to the article from a journals: Rogers
Brubaker, “Nationhood and the National Question in the Soviet
Union and Post-Soviet Eurasia: An Institutional Account”, in Theory and Society, vol. 23, no. 1
(Feb., 1994), pp. 47-78. Quoting web sources should be made as follows: Michael
Rawson, “Plagiarism: Curricular Materials for History Instructors,” American
Historical Association,
http://www.historians.org/governance/pd/Curriculum/plagiarism_ intro.htm.
(Updated: April 26, 2007).
The reviews of the books are
accepted in all three above mentioned languages, and Romanian. As a rule, if
the book is written in one language, the text of the review should be in
another language in order making possible for researchers from one country to
know the contributions coming from other countries. The recommended length of
the review is 10 000 signs.
Editor-in-chief: Igor Casu, Ph.D. (Jassy
University, Romania, 2000), Fulbright Alumnus (2000), director of the Center
for the Study of Totalitarianism, Moldova State University, Vice Chairman of
the Presidential Commission for the Study and Evaluation of the Communist
Totalitarian Regime in the Republic of Moldova. Email: igorcasu@gmail.com
Deadline:
March 1st 2012 for the 1st issue and November 1, 2012 for
the 2nd issue.
For the first issue agreed or
already sent their articles and book reviews scholars from various disciplines
and countries (Moldova, Romania, Ukraine,
Russia, Bulgaria, Lithuania,
Japan, Canada, and Spain).
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