Editorial Preface
Jane Caplan, Timothy Garton Ash, Jürgen Kocka, Gerhard Ritter, Margit Szöllösi-Janze

Introduction
Manfred Hildermeier

Chapter 1. National Socialist and Stalinist Rule: The Possibilities and Limits of Comparison
Ulrich Herbert

Chapter 2. Burgher and Town: Typological Differences and Functional Equivalents
Manfred Hildermeier

Chapter 3. Republicanism versus Monarchy? Government by Estates in Poland-Lithuania and the Holy Roman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Michael G. Müller

Chapter 4. The Impact of Religion on the Revolutions in France (1789) and Russia (1905/17)
Martin Schulze Wessel

Chapter 5. Dictatorships of Unambiguity: Cultural Transfer from Europe to Russia and the Soviet Union, 1861-1953
Jörg Baberowski

Chapter 6. Europe and the Culture of Borders: Rethinking Borders after 1989
Karl Schlögel

Chapter 7. Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Comparison and Beyond
Jürgen Kocka

Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Manfred Hildermeier is Professor of East European History at the University of Göttingen; he was Fellow of the Historische Kolleg in Munich and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and Chairman of the Association of German Historians (2000-2004); his writings on Russian and Soviet history include Die Russische Revolution 1905-1920 (1989), Geschichte der Sowjetunion 1917-1991: Aufstieg und Niedergang des ersten sozialistischen Staates (1998), Die Sowjetunion 1917-1991 (2001), Die Russische Revolution (2004) and the edited volumes Stalinismus vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Neue Wege der Forschung (1998) and Europäische Zivilgesellschaft in Ost und West: Begriff, Geschichte, Chancen (2000).