Jessen & Richter (Eds.) (90 page)

Zivilgesellschaft als Geschichte. Studien zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
(Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2004).

Stephan Merl
is Professor of East European History at Bielefeld University and honorary doctor of State Pedagocical University Yaroslavl’, Russian

Federation, and Mongolian State University of Education, Ulan Bator,

Mongolia. His current research interests are comparative history of dicta-

torships, cultural, social and economic history of Russia and the Soviet

Union, comparative history of consumption, Sovietization and Destalini-

sation in Eastern Europe. The topic of his forthcoming book is
Politische

Kommunikation in Diktaturen
.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin
is Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland. He has currently a

three year EU funded Marie Curie Fellowship to research the post-Soviet

color revolution phenomenon and an IRCHSS Fellowship to evaluate the

role of the EU and OSCE in the post-Soviet frozen conflicts. He has con-

ducted extensive field research in the former USSR and was based in the

region, in particular the Caucasus and Central Asia, from 2000–2008. He

most recent books include
The Destiny of the Soldiers: Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA
(New York: Macmillan 2010),
The Colour Revolutions in
the Post-Soviet States: Successes and Failures
(New York: Routledge 2010), and
Life in Post-Communist Eastern Europe After EU Membership
(New York:

Routledge 2011), which he has co-edited.

Frank Omland
lives in Hamburg and works at a counseling center. Research and publications on the history of the Weimar Republic as well as National

Socialism in Kiel and Hamburg. He belongs to a research group

investigating the history of National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein and is

a member of its steering committee since 2003. Research focus: elections

and plebiscites 1919–1938.

Werner J. Patzelt
is Professor of Political Science at the TU Dresden. His main fields of research are comparative politics, comparative legislative

studies, problems of political communication and political institutions. He

is the author of
Parlamente und ihre Macht. Kategorien und Fallbeispiele

institutioneller Analyse
(Baden-Baden: Nomos 2005); (ed.),
Evolutorischer Institutionalismus. Theorie und empirische Studien zu Evolution, Institutionalität und
Geschichtlichkeit
(Würzburg: Ergon 2007); (ed. with Michael Edinger),
Politik
als Beruf. Neue Perspektiven auf ein klassisches Thema
(Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag 2010).

Hedwig Richter
teaches at the Department of History at Greifswald University. In 2008 she received her PhD in modern history from the University

of Cologne. She is the author of
Die DDR
(Paderborn: Schöningh 2009)

and
Pietismus im Sozialismus. Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in der DDR

(Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009). Her research fields also in-

clude the history of labor migration and the history of elections.

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Mark B. Smith
is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Leeds. He is the author of
Property of Communists: the Urban Housing Program from Stalin
to Khrushchev
(DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010). His current research concerns social welfare in late imperial Russia and the USSR,

and transnational ties between East and West in early Cold War Europe.

Gleb Tsipursky
is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University at Newark. His research interests include popular culture, consumption, leisure, youth, social control, policing, violence, and the Cold War, in socialist

settings and in comparative contexts. His publications have appeared in the

United States, France, Germany, Canada, England, and Russia. He is cur-

rently completing a project on Soviet youth and popular culture during the

early Cold War, and starting a new study on volunteer socialist militias

during the Cold War.

Markus Urban
is a Public Historian and works as a freelance lecturer and author in Nuremberg, Germany. His doctoral thesis dealt with the

Nazi Party Rallies. He published
Die Konsensfabrik. Funktion und Wahrneh-

mung der NS-Reichsparteitage, 1933–1941
(Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007).

Index

absentee certificate 259, 299,

ballot

300

Australian 19, 20, 105

acclamation 19, 25, 41, 44, 46,

booth 16, 19, 25–27, 42, 60,

48, 55, 114–116, 132, 134, 192,

104, 105, 108, 109, 111,

262

119, 130, 132, 182, 208,

accommodation function 83,

213, 248, 258, 264, 296,

142

316, 322, 323, 329

Afghanistan 134

box 9, 13, 15, 19, 25, 26, 104,

Africa 11, 126, 127, 213

105, 107–109, 111, 114,

Akaev, Askar 210, 221, 223

131, 168, 182, 202, 208,

Amendola, Giovanni 174

231, 235, 245, 248, 249,

Arab spring 11

264, 272, 294–296, 297,

Arendt, Hannah 12, 311

302, 306, 309, 323, 324

arrests 104, 147, 149, 150, 152,

furnishing of ballot station

154, 156, 158, 159, 161, 168,

64, 202, 248, 258

169, 279

notes on 26, 291, 303, 306,

Asia 11, 126, 204–207, 209, 210,

310, 322, 324–327, 330

213–216, 218, 220, 221, 223–

paper 19, 26, 29, 42, 45, 61,

225

62, 104, 107–109, 118, 131,

Austria 47, 235, 236, 243, 246,

132, 182, 183, 190, 208,

249, 257, 264

209, 233, 235, 248–250,

authoritarianism 10, 11, 82–84,

264–267, 270–272, 277,

88, 99, 133, 134, 137, 141,

296, 306, 310, 316, 322–

204–206, 214, 224

324, 326, 327, 329, 330

closed 10, 130, 131, 133, 139,

secret 9, 16–20, 42, 103–105,

243

108, 110, 119, 122, 137,

competitive 10, 130, 133, 134,

147, 150, 151, 153, 159,

139

160, 162, 164, 169, 182,

electoral 11, 27, 88, 97–99,

192, 193, 202, 240, 254,

130, 133, 134, 139, 142

258, 264, 265, 277, 278,

280, 282, 295, 296, 302,

303, 314, 316

342

I N D E X

station 9, 16, 42, 52, 64, 107,

charisma 220, 261, 262

110, 131, 141, 183, 208,

China 21, 28, 126, 132, 214, 215

215, 236, 248, 249, 258,

CIS, Commonwealth of

263, 264, 266, 267, 272,

Independent States 214, 215

293, 294, 296, 297, 299,

clergy 20, 25, 61, 106, 109, 113,

301, 316, 321

118–120, 150, 182, 280, 314

bargaining, haggling 17, 23, 29,

clientelism 69, 206

62, 75, 96, 107, 118–120, 157,

Cold War 14, 22, 81, 92, 189,

181, 190, 277, 287, 289, 305,

207, 223, 310, 315

306

collectivism 25, 27, 116, 117,

Beecher, Henry Ward 24

177, 178, 180, 247, 312

Belorussia 103, 215, 309, 317–

collectivization 149, 152, 206

323, 328, 329, 335

communication 17, 22, 26, 28,

Berlin 108, 119, 267, 268

29, 62–64, 72, 75, 77, 78, 86,

Bismarck, Otto von 111, 238

117, 118, 120, 121, 147, 231,

Bottai, Giuseppe 21, 176

244, 321, 322, 324–327, 329

Bregman, Solomon L. 158

Communist Party of

Brezhnev, Leonid 99, 118, 206,

Czechoslovakia 187–192, 195,

297, 301, 305, 311

197–201, 203

Brunei 126

Communist Party of the Soviet

Bukharin, Nikolai 150, 151

Union (bolshevik) 61, 66, 71,

bureaucracy 16, 24, 82, 95, 98,

75, 147, 158, 159, 166, 315,

149

318

conformism 14, 23, 25–27, 67,

candidates 9, 26, 27, 29, 46, 59,

84, 90, 94, 98, 117, 175, 180,

60, 62–64, 66–70, 73, 74, 77,

184, 198, 200, 208, 249, 250,

85, 94, 95, 106–108, 118, 119,

276, 280

129, 141, 142, 147, 150, 151,

consensus 13, 14, 19, 21, 23, 25,

153, 159, 160, 162, 164, 165,

39, 67, 70, 107, 114, 116, 117,

169, 187, 189–192, 200–202,

121, 142, 173–175, 179–184,

208–214, 216–218, 221, 237,

224, 231–233, 237, 239, 242,

277–279, 281–288, 290, 293,

244, 246, 247, 249–251, 272,

295–302, 304, 306, 310, 314–

276, 280, 311, 329

317, 320, 322–327, 329

Constituent Assembly 66

Catholic Church 43, 179, 184,

constitution 20, 22, 41, 45, 60,

272

61, 63–65, 67, 68, 71–75, 77,

celebrations 21, 23, 49, 55, 65,

78, 86, 105, 114, 200, 204,

73, 84–88, 97, 104, 107, 115,

219, 220, 241

116, 177, 232, 234, 244, 262,

Weimar (Germany) 22, 41, 48

263, 273, 310

Soviet (1936) 20, 21, 22, 60,

Central Committee 149, 150,

61, 64, 68, 71, 75, 78, 103,

169, 315, 321

150, 151, 157, 276, 277, 279