CALL FOR PAPERS 2019

Arhivele Totalitarismului/Totalitarianism Archives is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism of the Romanian Academy, indexed in CEEOL, EBSCO, and Index Copernicus databases.

We are currently calling for papers for volumes no. 1-2, and 3-4 to be published in 2019.

Senior scholars, researchers, PhD students and postdoctoral students are strongly encouraged to submit papers on one of the following topics: 

·  The Comintern and Communist Parties in Europe. A Century since the Founding of Comintern (1919)

·  European right wing: Italian fascism, Nazism; Authoritarian regimes;

·   Stalin’s Great Terror; 

·   80 years after de Soviet-German Pact (August 23, 1939)

·  International relations: Western Communist Parties and the   Communist Party of the Soviet Union; 

·   Political, economic, social, and cultural evolutions in the Soviet   bloc after World War II; 

·   East-West relations during the Cold War; 

·  Opposition to totalitarianism: From resistance to dissent (types of opposition, ways of expressing alternative views: samizdat/tamizdat/magnitizdat, parallel cultures);

·  Human rights movements and the Communist regimes in East-Central Europe and the Soviet Union;

·  Ideology, propaganda, political parties and organizations: The totalitarian experience in the 20th century.

· The year 1989: 30 years after the Collapse of Communism. Premise, unfolding and legacy.

The papers may be submitted in ROMANIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH. 

The contributors are asked to send the FINAL DRAFTS and a short narrative cv until  May 15, 2019, at the following addresses ana.catanus@gmail.com

We are kindly asking the authors to respect the following length and editing suggestions:

Studies: maximum 40 000 characters, no spaces/ approximate 20 standard pages. The title of the submitted article should be descriptive, concise and must indicate the chronological limits. The studies must contain subtitles, an introduction presenting the stage of knowledge of the subject, the novelty of the research, the analysis of the subject, and a chapter of conclusions.

Documents: maximum 40 000 characters, no spaces/ approximate 20 standard pages. The texts published under this chapter must consist of the following elements: 2-4 pages of introduction and the documents must be accompanied by titles, the archival source and illustrations.

Biographies: maximum 10 000 characters, no spaces/ approximates 5 standard pages. Biographies do not have footnotes, but at the end of the text the authors are asked to attach a selective bibliography of the sources. „Totalitarianism Archives” encourages the authors to submit along with the biography a photo of the person whose biography is being submitted.

Book Reviews: maximum 10 000 characters, no spaces/ approximate 5 standard pages.

Formatting: 12, Times New Roman, 1,5 spacing

For editing guidelines, please consult: 

http://arhiveletotalitarismului.blogspot.ro/p/norme-de-redactare.html

The submitted papers are to be subjected to  the peer-review process. The authors will be notified regarding the decision of publication in due time.