The human hunt that nearly paralyzed the party. A microstudy of Soviet mass terror
Wendy Z. Goldman, Inventing the Enemy, Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, Cambridge et al.Cambridge University Press 2011, 320 pages
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Editor-in-chief of BW. Visiting professor at Gothenburg University (School of Public Administration).
Anders Björnsson
Editor-in-chief of BW. Researcher at Sveriges Radio (Swedish Radio) (1982–1993), and at Svenska Dagbladet (1994–2001). Editor-in-Chief of Dagens Forskning (2001–2003). Since 2003, independent writer and researcher.
Recent publications include Max Weber – inblickar i en tid och ett tänkande [Max Weber – views into an age and a way of thinking] (2006), I kunskapens intresse [In the interests of knowledge], a study of the Swedish academics movement (2007), Palatset som Finland räddade [The Palace that Finland saved] (2009) and Skuggor av ett förflutet [Shadows of a past], a book about the Swedish Farmers’ League and the 1930s (2009). Conducts research on the professional and union organizing efforts of Swedish occupational therapists. Together with Professor Lars Magnusson (Uppsala University), he is completing a group project on Swedish economic thought from the time of Saint Birgitta (Saint Bridget) until the First World War.
2001 and 2009, visiting research fellow at the School of Public Administration (University of Gothenburg). 1992–1999, on the board of the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSFR). 1999–2001 on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Swedish Institute for Contemporary History (Södertörn University). Starting 2009, on the board of TAM (the archival department of Swedish white collar and professional trade unions).
Articles by Anders Björnsson
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On the desirability of industrial capitalism and autocracy. A Russian road to modernization
Francis W. Wcislo, Tales of Imperial Russia, The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849–1915, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 314 pages
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Exodus from Galicia. Inferno of the swindlers and the swindled
Martin Pollack, Kaiser von Amerika: Die grosse Flucht aus Galizien, Vienna: Paul Zsolnay Verlag 2010, 285 pages
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Stasi watched Sweden during the Cold War
By matching agent lists with agent reports from the Stasi archives, Professor Almgren, who is affiliated with Södertörn University, has delved deeper into issues relating to particular individuals than the Swedish security police have. She has established the incompetence of the Swedish security police and their inability to uncover threats to Sweden at the time.
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RESULTS OF AN ARCHIVAL REVOLUTION
The books I have been asked to briefly comment on are both learned works of indisputable scholarly quality. At the [...]
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On guard against red perils
Max Engman, Gränsfall: Utväxlingar och gränstrafik på Karelska näset 1918–1920 [Borderline case: Exchanges and border traffic on the Karelian isthmus 1918—1920] Helsinki/Stockholm, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland [Swedish Literature Society in Finland] & Bokförlaget Atlantis 2008, 538 pages
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János Kornai. What has happened to Hungary in so short a time?
The Hungarian János Kornai is one of Europe’s most respected economists. His name is often mentioned in speculation about the [...]
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Access granted: archives open for researcher
On June 24, 2010 Regeringsrätten, Sweden’s Supreme Administrative Court, reached a verdict, marking a victory for Professor Birgitta Almgren’s research. Both the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) and the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeal had rejected Professor Almgren's request to obtain the classified documents from the GDR's foreign espionage that the CIA sent to Säpo.
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Keeping an eye on a neighbor. A German look on Denmark
Bernd Henningsen, Dänemark C H Beck. 2009, 229 pages (From the series: Die Deutschen und ihre Nachbarn)
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Turning a blind Eye to the Obvious
István Rév opens the door to the Open Society Archives for a discussion about bloodshed as a poor gauge of a revolution, about honesty and decency as rare commodities, and about populism and utopianism.