Germany After the Totalitarianisms: Part II

Russell Berman
Introduction

Norman Naimark
Totalitarian States and the History of Genocide

Sigrid Meuschel and Barbara Könczöl
Sacralization of Politics in the GDR

Konrad H. Jarausch
The Collapse of Communism and the Search for Master Narratives: Interpretative Implications of German Unification

Julia Hell
Remnants of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Heiner Müller, Slavoj Žižek, and the Re-Invention of Politics

Andrew Hewitt
Masochism and Terror: Fight Club and the Violence of Neo-fascist Ressentiment


Freedom, Prejudice, and Power

The Euston Manifesto

Matthias Küntzel
Confronting Anti-Semitism—But How?

Jean-Claude Paye
From the State of Emergency to the Permanent State of Exception


Notes and Commentary

James V. Schall, S.J.
On Choosing Not to See

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Princess of Speed: Three and a Half Hours with the Secretary of State


Reviews

Nino Langiulli
Marxism’s Strange Death
(Paul Edward Gottfried, The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium)

Aviezer Tucker
The Old-New Class
(Gil Eyal, The Origins of Postcommunist Elites: From Prague Spring to the Breakup of Czechoslovakia)