Preface: Shtromas's Tasks

Robert Faulkner and Daniel J. Mahoney

Foreword: On Shtromas

Daviel Marquand

Part I: Autobiographical Introduction

Statement to Contemporary Authors

The "Author's Testimony to the Baltic Tribunal Against the Soviet Union"

To My Students-Past, Present, and Future

Have Pity on the Hangman

Part II: Looking Back at the Main Challenge of the Twentieth Century: Overcoming Totalitarianism

1 The Jewish and Gentile Experience of the Holocaust: A Personal Perspective

2 Making Sense of Stalin

3 Marxism-Leninism in the USSR

4 To Fight Communism: Why and How?

5 The Inevitable Collapse of Socialism

6 Dissent, Nationalism, and the Soviet Future

7 On Totalitarianism and the Prospects for Institutionalized Revolution in the USSR and China

8 Ideology and Conflict: Does Warfare Between "Isms" Belong to Past History?

Part III: Post-Communist Transitions

9 The Transition to a Free Market System: The Hillsdale Plan and the Other Plans

10 What Should Be the Next Stage in the Process of Russian Reform?

11 To Expand Beyond Enlargement: A Few Thoughts on Preserving NATO's Original Identity without Hindering Its Transformation into a Euro-Atlantic Collective Security System

Part IV: The Baltic Pendulum

12 The Soviet Method of Conquest of the Baltic States: Lessons for the West

13 The Baltic States as Soviet Republics: Tensions and Contradictions

14 How Political are the Social Movements in the Baltic Republics?

Part V: Theoretical and Practical Considerations on Revolution and Political Change

15 How Revolutions Proceed

16 Political Change and Political Collapse

Part VI: Looking Toward the Challenges for the Next Century

17 The Strategy for Peace in a Changing World

18 The Future World Order and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination and Sovereignty

19 What Is Peace and How Could It Be Achieved?

20 Nations, States, and World Peace: Rejoinder

21 Competing; Identities as Shapers of Personal Political Consciousness: The "Collective Self" on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

22 Universal Values vs. Local Preferences and Guilt Complexes in Transition to Global Education

Bibliography of Aleksandras Shtromas

Index

About the Author

About the Editors