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View that by adhering to a utopian ideology, constructing an elaborate party-army-police nexus, and seeking to penetrate every aspect of life in Nicaragua, the Sandinista government met the definition of totalitarianism.

Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in the 1930s to present day Iran and China. The book presents an overview of the two central terms and their development since their contemporaneous appearance in cultural and historiographical discourses in the early twentieth century, comprising fifteen essays written by specialists on particular regimes situated in a wide variety of time periods and places. Interdisciplinary in nature, this compelling work will appeal to students from Music and Jazz Studies to Political Science, Sociology, and Cultural Theory.

Jazz and fascism : contradictions and ambivalences in the diffusion of jazz music under the Italian fascist dictatorship (1925-1935) / Marilisa Merolla -- Jazz in Moscow after Stalinism / Rüdiger Ritter -- Four spaces four meanings : narrating jazz in late-Stalinist Estonia / Heli Reimann -- Jazz in Poland : totalitarianism, Stalinism, socialist realism / Igor Pietraszewski -- Jazz in socialist Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s / Wolf-Georg Zaddach -- Trouble with the neighbours : jazz, geopolitics, and Finland's totalitarian shadow / Marcus O'Dair -- Performing the "anti-Spanish" body : jazz and biopolitics in the early Franco regime (1939-1957) / Iván Iglesias -- "The purest essence of jazz" : the appropriation of blues in Spain during Franco's dictatorship / Joseph Pedro -- Jazz and the Portuguese dictatorship before and after WWII : from moral panic to suspicious acceptance / Pedro Roxo -- A kind of "in-between" : jazz and politics in Portugal (1958-1974) / Pedro Cravinho -- A climbing vine through concrete : jazz in 1960s Apartheid South Africa / Jonathan -- "Fanfare for the warriors" : jazz, education, and state control in 1980s South Africa and after / Mark Duby -- From the 'Sultan' to the 'Persian side' : jazz in Iran and Iranian jazz since the 1920s / Gay Breyley -- On the marginality of contemporary jazz in China : the case of Beijing / Adiel Portugali -- Afterword : conclusions / Bruce Johnson

The article deals with the possibility of postcolonial approach to the literature of Central and Eastern Europe and in particular Ukrainian literature. The author also considers so called neocolonialism and the paradoxes of the transition from totalitarian to post-totalitarian reality. Special attention is paid to the question of «totalitarian» elements present inside any democratic state. The author outlines a few versions of the interpretation of the contemporary Ukrainian writers's (Juri Andrukhovych, Serhiy Zhadan, Irena Karpa, Jevhenia Kononenko, Viktor Pelevin) works dealing with post-communist reality, transition to democratic society, postcolonial trauma. ; В статье речь идет о возможности применения постколониального подхода к изучению литератур Центральной и Восточной Европы, в частности украинской литературы. Автор говорит также о так называемом неоколониализме и парадоксах перехода от тоталитарной к посттоталитарной реальности. Отдельное внимание уделено проблеме «тоталитарной» составляющей демократического государства. Очерчены некоторые варианты переосмысления посткоммунистического опыта и перехода к жизни в демократическом обществе, преодоления постколониальной травмы в творчестве Ю. Андруховича, С. Жадана, И. Карпы, Е. Кононенко, В. Пелевина. ; У статті йдеться про можливість застосування постколоніальних студій до дослідження літератур Центральної і Східної Європи, зокрема літератури української. Йдеться також про так званий неоколоніалізм і парадокси переходу від тоталітарної до посттоталітарної дійсності. Окрему увагу приділено проблемі «тоталітарної» складової демократичного ладу. Окреслено кілька варіантів переосмислення посткомуністичного досвіду і стану переходу до демократичного суспільства, переживання постколоніальної травми у творчості Ю. Андруховича, С. Жадана, І. Карпи, Є. Кононенко, В. Пєлєвіна.

The experience of modern totalitarian regimes suggests that they are not likely to perish through internal revolt unless that occurs at a time when the totalitarian regime is in mortal danger from an external challenge, as in the marginal Italian case, or these the totalitarian movement in power is about to undertake decisive measures to turn the country into a totalitarian system, as in the case of the counter-revolution against Peron in Argentina. Other than that, and even considering the succession crises, modern totalitarian regimes have shown themselves capable of maintaining their totalitarian character in spite of domestic and foreign opposition. More recently it has been argued (e.g., by I. Deutscher, Russia: What Next) that modern totalitarian regimes, if not overthrown by external forces, will nevertheless in the end be quietly and inevitably transformed into more democratic states by the subtler but irresistible influence of rationality inherent in the bureaucratic and managerial apparatus that no modern state can do without. This proposition will be developed more fully and given critical consideration in subsequent pages in order to test whether rationality, regarded in this context as a certain mode of thought and behavior induced by the requirements of modern industrialized and bureaucratized societies, is in fact incompatible with modern totalitarianism.