“Really Existing Socialism” and the Archival Revolution

(2012) 25:308313 DOI 10.1007/s12129-012-9288-5 BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND ITEMS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST Daniel J. Mahoney Published online: 20 May 2012# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Editors Note: Our Books, Articles, and Items of Academic Interest feature is at present being written by guest authors. Really Existing Socialism and the Archival Revolution Really Existing Socialism and the Archival Revolution 309 Other volumes include the correspondence between Stalin and his deputy Vyascheslav Molotov, documentation on popular resistance to the Communist authorities during the post-Stalinist period, and a heart-rending volume on children of the Gulag, as well as Anne Applebaums deftly edited volume of classic Gulag Voices: An Anthology (Yale University Press, 2010). With the help of Soviet census data, Rosefielde, a distinguished authority in Soviet/Russian studies and comparative economic systems, highlights the incompleteness of NKVD archival data on executions and excess mortality in Gulag camps, colonies, and prisons. In Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences (Stanford University Press, 2010), Baehr engages Arendt and other great analysts and critics of totalitarianism such as Raymond Aron and Jules Monnerot.