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Version 2.0: In the Roman Republic, a dictatorship (dictatura in Latin) referred to an institution of constitutional law. In times of emergency the senate would temporarily grant a dictator extraordinary powers to defend and restore state order. This classic meaning was reshaped in various ways during the twentieth century. Dictatorship became an ambiguous term whose range of meanings could encompass positive expectations as well as moral condemnation. The modern concept of dictatorship has been used as both a self-descriptor as well as a label employed by others to describe communist, fascist and Nazi rule.
While Crises are omnipresent in history and historiography, the meaning of the concept of „Crisis“ is becoming more elusive than ever. The new article by Rüdiger Graf and Konrad H. Jarausch scrutinizes how historians use the concept with respect to contemporary history, the twentieth century, and modernity in general. After briefly sketching the conceptual history of "crisis," the article addresses the questions of how the concept structures historiographical narratives, what types of crises historians distinguish, and, considering its vagueness, suggestive power, and political instrumentalization, if we should retain the concept or refrain from using it.
Antikommunismus
(2017)
Mit der Ausbreitung des Kommunismus, mit der Diffusion von Ideologien und Bewegungen waren Abstoßungseffekte, d.h. die Entstehung von Gegenideologien und Gegenbewegungen verbunden. Der Beitrag von Bernd Faulenbach behandelt „Antikommunismus” als historische Kategorie. Er thematisiert zunächst seine Entstehung seit 1917, dann werden die Epochen des Antikommunismus dargestellt bis hin zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kommunismus seit der Epochenwende 1989-91. Abschließend erörtert er den Forschungsstand und offene Fragen.