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Authors: Voting for Hitler,Stalin; Elections Under 20th Century Dictatorships (2011)
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