Erik van Ree
ERIK VAN REE
ACADEMIC PROFILE Since 1989/90 I have been assistant professor at the “Oost Europa Instituut”. The institute has been absorbed by the department of European Studies (Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam). I was born in 1953 in Amsterdam, graduated as a sociologist in 1978, and obtained my PhD degree in 1988 with my thesis “Socialism in One Zone. Stalin’s Policy in Korea, 1945-1947” (both events at the University of Amsterdam). Although I graduated as a sociologist, I have published little that can qualify as sociological. I see myself rather as a historian. Since the early eighties I have focused on studying the history of communism,and specifically on the person of Joseph Stalin. I suppose my interest in this subject has much to do with the fact that I was an active maoist from 1973 to 1981. I have never seen myself as apure academic. I contributed to debates in the Dutch press on issues such as freedom of speech, sexual freedom and the legalisation of drugs. I teach on various subjects such as Stalinism, the philosophy of science, and political philosophy.PRESENT RESEARCH My present research focuses on the history of the concept of "socialism in one country". MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Books
De Totalitaire Paradox. De Terroristische Massademocratie van Stalin en Mao(Van Gennep/ Amsterdam), 1984
Socialism in One Zone. Stalin's Policy in Korea, 1945-1947 (Berg Publishers/ Oxford), 1989 (dissertatie uit 1988)
Bloedbroeders. Stalin, Hitler en hun Pact (Jan Mets/ Amsterdam), 1989
Jezus van Nazaret. Een wonderlijk leven (Jan Mets/ Amsterdam), 1989 Löwenhardt, John, James R.Ozinga, Erik van Ree, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (St. Martin's Press/ New York; University College London Press/ London; Jan Mets/ Amsterdam), 1992 Jansen, Marc, Erik van Ree (red.), Russische Schurken (De Arbeiderspers/ Amsterdam), 1992
De Mensenhater. Leven en sterven van de bijbelse god (Jan Mets/Amsterdam), 1997
The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin. A Study in Twentieth-Century RevolutionaryPatriotism (RoutledgeCurzon/London, New York), 2002 Wereldrevolutie. De Communistische Beweging van Marx tot Kim Jong Il. (Mets & Schilt, Standaard Uitgeverij/Amsterdam, Antwerpen), 2005
Articles Hak, Han, Erik van Ree, ‘Was the older Mao still a Maoist?’, in: Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.14, nr.1, 1984: 82-93 ‘De tweede revolutie’, in: Sociologische Gids, jrg.XXXI, nr.6, 1984: 474-486 ‘The quest for purity in Communism’, in: Van Beek, Walter E.A. (ed.), The Quest for Purity. Dynamics of Puritan Movements (Mouton de Gruyter/ Berlin etc.), 1988: 245-62 ‘The Limits of Juche: North Korea’s Dependence on Soviet Industrial Aid, 1953-76’ in: The Journal of Communist Studies, Vol.5, nr.1, March 1989: 50-73 ‘De muis die brulde’, in: ArnoldKoper, Constant Vecht, Maxvan Wezel, Alles moest anders. Het onvervuld verlangen van een linkse generatie (Nijgh & Van Ditmar/Amsterdam), 1991: 37-47 ‘De Stalin-cultus: een elite organiseert haar eigen mythe’, in Theoretische Geschiedenis, Jrg.19, nr.4, 1992: 414-22 ‘Stalin’s Organic Theory of the Party’, in: The Russian Review, vol.52, nr.1, January 1993: 43-57 ‘Stalin and the National Question’, in: Revolutionary Russia, vol.7, nr.2, December 1994: 214-238 ‘Stalin's Bolshevism: The First Decade’, in: The International Review of Social History, vol.39, nr.3, December 1994: 361-81 ‘Tolerantie: het “Osmaanse” versus het moderne model’, in: Koch, Koen, Paul Scheffer, Het nut van Nederland. Opstellen over souvereiniteit en identiteit (Uitgeverij Bert Bakker/Amsterdam), 1996: 85-101
‘Stalin and Marxism: a Research Note’, in: Studies in East-European Thought, vol.49, no.1, March 1997: 23-33
‘Fear ofdrugs’, in: International Journal ofDrug Policy, vol.8, no.2, 1997:93-100
'Socialism in One Country: A Reassessment’, in: Studies in East-European Thought, vol.50, nr.2, June 1998: 77-117
‘Drugs as a human right’, in: International journal of drug policy, 1999, nr.10: 89-98 ‘The Russian tsars through Stalin’s eyes’, Theoretische geschiedenis, 1999, jrg.26, nr.4: 501-19 ‘Ontstaan en teloorgang van de “dictatuur van het proletariaat”: Marx, Lenin, Stalin’, in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, jrg.113, nr.3, 2000: 335-53 ‘Stalin’s bolshevism: the year of the revolution’, in: Revolutionary Russia, vol. 13, no.1, June 2000: 29-54 ‘Stalin as a Marxist Philosopher’, in: Studies in East-European Thought, vol.52, no.4, December 2000: 259-308 “Nationalist elements in the work of Marx and Engels: a critical survey”, in: MEGA-Studien, Heft 2000, no.1: 25-49 ‘The concept of “national bolshevism”: aninterpretative essay’, in: Journal of Political Ideologies, vol.6, no.3, October2001: 289-307 ‘Stalinistische propaganda: theorie, praktijk, resultaten’, in: Leidschrift, jrg.16, nr.3, december 2001: 7-25 ‘”Lenin’s last struggle” revisited’, in: Revolutionary Russia, December 2001, vol.14, no.2: 85-122 “Stalin as Writer and Thinker”, in: Kritika, vol.3, nr.4, Fall 2002: 699-714 “Drugs, the democratic civilising process and the consumer society”, in: International Journal of Drug Policy, vol.13, no.5, November 2002: 349-53 “Stalin as Marxist. The Western roots of Stalin’s russification of Marxism”, in: Davies, Sarah, James Harris (eds.), Stalin. A New History (Cambridge University Press/Cambridge etc.), 2005: 159-80"Heroes and Merchants. Stalin's Understanding of National Character", in: Kritika, vol.8 no.1, Winter 2007: 41-65
"Reluctant terrorists? Transcaucasian social-democracy, 1901-1909", in: Europe-Asia Studies, vol.60, no.1, January 2008: 127-54
"Heroes and merchants. Joseph Stalin and the nations of Europe", in: Michael Wintle (ed.), Imagining Europe. Europe andEuropean Civilisation as Seen from its Margins and by the Restof theWorld, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (P.I.E. Peter Lang/Brussel etc.), 2008: 51-72
"The Stalinist Self: TheCase of Ioseb Jughashvili (1898-1907)", in: Kritika, vol.11, no.2, Spring 2010: 257-82
"'Socialism in one country' before Stalin: German origins", in: Journal of Political Ideologies, June 2010, vol.15, no.2: 143-59
"Machtspolitieke en ideologische motieven in een twntigste-eeuwse dictatuur: Jozef Stalin", in: Tweede Levens. Over Personen en Personages in de geschiedschrijving en de Literatuur (Amsterdam University Press/Amsterdam), 2010: 137-51
"Actualiteit van het communisme: voor herhaling vatbaar?", in: Internationale Spectator, vol.66, no.1, January 2012: 7-9
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