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            <h1>The Origins of Antitotalitarianism 
      
      
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        <div class="vrtx-introduction"><p>The aim of the project is to provide a better understanding of the role of culture and intellectuals in both creating resistance to oppressive regimes and legitimizing them, igniting national sentiments as well as spreading cosmopolitan and humanist values.</p>
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              <p>For more information about this project, please see the <a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english/research/networks/totalitarianism/">project page</a> at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, UiO.</p>
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<p>The ambition of the project is to develop a comparative approach to the following questions:</p>
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	<li>In what way have cultural values, traditions and symbols stimulated or thwarted peaceful transition to democracy in East-Central Europe?</li>
	<li>What has been the role of intellectual elites and academics in the project of legitimizing or resisting tyranny and bondage?</li>
	<li>How has culture (religion, arts and literature, archaeology, etc) been used to promote a broader cosmopolitan, or a narrow nationalist identity?</li>
	<li>What is the relation between culture, science and ethnic nationalism?</li>
	<li>Does the Eastern European experience of totalitarianism hold any relevance in the present context? This study is an attempt to provide insights into the ways in which specific cultural and ethical traditions inform political transformation or consolidation. As a related goal, the project will critically explore those forces and traditions which influence an intercultural dialogue in the new, extended Europe.</li>
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<p>The primary objective of the project is to create insights into the ways in which a society’s culture creates preconditions for political and economic transformations such as a revolutionary upheaval, peaceful transition to democracy, or a nationalist backlash. The related objective is to develop an analytical approach to the modern history of Eastern Europe which would counterbalance Edward Said’s cultural analysis of Western Orientalism and imperialism (Said 1979; 1993).</p>
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<p>This project is part of the research of an international Consortium involving the universities of Warsaw, Kiev, Vilnius, London, Jerusalem, Copenhagen and Lund.</p>
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