Stephane Courtois’s scientific contributions

... Existing literature on history, memory and politics is abundant, but the majority of these focus on empirical studies as to how certain narratives or memories were constructed, and how they set agendas for various political actors. There is a huge amount of research into Eastern European narratives and memories after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and their impact on domestic power legitimation and geopolitics within the EU and Russia (see, for example, Bernhard & Kubik, 2014;Mälksoo, 2009;Courtois & Kramer, 1999;Behr, 2021;Mink & Neumayer, 2013). There is a comparable amount of work on how narratives and memories have been constructed in China and other East Asian countries during their struggles toward modernity, and how it affected the geopolitics of these regions and the legitimation of the power of incumbents (for example Jones, 2002;Kubat, 2018;Weatherley & Magee, 2018;Weatherley & Zhang, 2017). ...

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How Do We Use History Writing as a Form of Political Action? From J. G. A. Pocock’s Multiplicity of Narratives to Liu Yizheng’s “Virtue of Historians” (shi de 史德)

... The extent of relative wealth aggregation in urban areas by non-Romanians grew due to the prevalence of the highly agrarian Romanian-Moldavians who, unlike the intelligentsia, stayed behind and "strongly resisted Sovietization and collectivization". 23 However, the Soviets incrementally squeezed smaller and smaller farms into collective farms or kolkhoz. For those kulaks who refused voluntary collectivization, the end of the 1940s became increasingly hazardous. ...

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Why Moldova? Why Now?

... It is no surprise that left-wing thought has the potential to figure in violent criminal behavior, since historically most political terrorism in Western countries has been left-wing (Burrough, 2015;Gottfried, 2021; Institute for Economics and Peace, 2020). Moreover, utopian egalitarian projects, when enacted at massive scale (such as in the case of Communism), have led, either directly or indirectly, to tens of millions of deaths (Courtois et al., 2001). Surely, following BJ&W's harmminimization reasoning, academic material favoring leftist beliefs and goals should be excluded from APA journals, as they could embolden more left-wing terrorism (e.g., Japanese Red Army, Red Brigades, Red 2 BJ&W follow other writers in falsely alleging that "[the] Buffalo mass shooter cited the work of Woodley …. for justification of his actions in the manifesto" (p. ...

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Anti-Mertonian norms undermine the scientific ethos: A critique of Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's policy proposals and associated justification

... Lesquelles n'incluent pas la corruption systémique des républiques socialistes depuis leur origine en Russie et en Chine. La corruption de ces États est consubstantielle à leur complexité : chaînes de décisions complexes et en opposition, planification découplée de la réalité, falsification des données pour réaligner les résultats avec ceux espérés (Courtois & al., 1997). ...

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Anticipation et prévention de la corruption : entre philosophie morale et modèles économiques