{"id":2922,"date":"2017-02-12T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2017-02-12T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:00:05","slug":"jorg-baberowski-scorched-earth-stalins-reign-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":"J\u00f6rg Baberowski, “Scorched Earth: Stalin’s Reign of Terror”"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Scorched Earth: Stalin’s Reign of Terror<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n


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Dates: Wed 15 Feb 2017 17.00 – 19.00<\/font><\/p>\n


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Scorched Earth depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by ‘totalitarian ambitions’ and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. Baberowski takes a twofold approach, emphasizing Stalin\u2019s personal role and responsibility as well as the continuity he sees in Communist aims and ideology since 1917. Unlike recent apologist accounts that focus on the challenges of modernization or on the operational complexities of managing the Soviet state, this hard-hitting analysis unequivocally locates the origins of the terror in the culture of violence and the techniques of power. Detailed, well-documented, and including many new details on the workings of the Stalinist state, this powerful work encompasses the dictator\u2019s brutal reign from his achievement of total power in 1929 to his death in 1953.<\/font><\/p>\n


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J\u00f6rg Baberowski<\/b> is professor of Eastern European history at Humboldt University in Berlin. His publications include Der Rote Terror. Die Geschichte des Stalinismus (2003); Der Sinn der Geschichte. Geschichtstheorien von Hegel bis Foucault (2005); Verbrannte Erde. Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt (2012) and R\u00e4ume der Gewalt (2015).<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n


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Affiliation: Department of History and Civilization<\/font><\/p>\n


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Speaker: Professor Joerg Baberowski (Humboldt Universit\u00e4t)<\/font><\/p>\n


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