Dr. E. (Erik) van Ree
East European Studies
Faculty of Humanities
Visiting address
- Kloveniersburgwal 48
Postal address
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Postbus 1605
1000 BP Amsterdam
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Profiel
ERIK VAN REE
ACADEMIC PROFILE
I was born in Amsterdam in 1953, graduated as a sociologist in 1978, and obtained a PhD in 1988 with my thesis Socialism in One Zone. Stalin's Policy in Korea, 1945-1947 (the latter events both at the University of Amsterdam). Although I graduated as a sociologist, I see myself rather as a historian. Since the early eighties my research has focussed on the history of communism, more specifically on Stalinism. I suppose my interest in this subject has much to do with the fact that I was an active maoist from 1973 to 1981. At present I am research associate of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. My present research focuses on the history of the phenomenon of the revolutionary organisation.
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Publications
2023
van Ree, E. (2023). "Standing against a State Requires the State": Exploring Revolutionary Etatization. Journal of Political & Military Sociology, 50(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.5744/jpms.2023.1001 [details]
2022
- van Ree, E. (2022). The rise of the party in arms: Revolutionary organizations and modernization. Journal of Political & Military Sociology, 49(1), 58-86.
- van Ree, E. (2022). ‘The Day the Dragon Licks Its Flank, You’ll Find Us at Your Side’: Self-Heroization and Revolutionary Organization. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 23(3), 265-286. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2098724 [details]
2020
- van Ree, E. (2020). Dictatorship Unlimited: Lenin on the State, March-November 1917. In L. Douds, J. Harris, & P. Whitewood (Eds.), The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41 (pp. 17-29, 257-262). (Library of modern Russia). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350117938.ch-002 [details]
- van Ree, E. (2020). Productive forces, the passions and natural philosophy: Karl Marx, 1841-1846. Journal of Political Ideologies, 25(3), 274-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2020.1773069 [details]
2019
- van Ree, E. (2019). A dream come true: Western Eyewitnesses of the October Revolution. In C. Chatterjee, S. G. Marks, M. Neuburger, & S. Sabol (Eds.), The Global Impacts of Russia's Great War and Revolution. - Book 2: The Wider Arc of Revolution (Vol. 1, pp. 83-104). (Russia’s Great War and revolution; Vol. 6). Slavica Publishers. [details]
- van Ree, E. (2019). Marx and Engels's theory of history. Making sense of the race factor. Journal of Political Ideologies, 24(1), 54-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2019.1548094 [details]
2017
- van Ree, E. (2017). Stalin, Joseph. In U. Daniel, P. Gatrell, O. Janz, H. Jones, J. Keene, A. Kramer, & B. Nasson (Eds.), 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War Freie Universität Berlin. https://doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.11043 [details]
2016
- van Ree, E. (2016). Stalinist ritual and belief system: Reflections on "political religion". Politics, Religion and Ideology, 17(2-3), 143-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2016.1187600 [details]
2015
- van Ree, E. (2015). Boundaries of Utopia: Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin. (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series; No. 63). London/New York: Routledge. [details]
2013
- van Ree, E. (2013). Georgii Plekhanov and the Communist Manifesto: the proletarian revolution revisited. Revolutionary Russia, 26(1), 32-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2013.787807 [details]
- van Ree, E. (2013). Marxism as permanent revolution. History of Political Thought, 34(3), 540-563. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/hpt/2013/00000034/00000003/art00007 [details]
2012
- van Ree, E. (2012). German Marxism and the decline of the permanent revolution, 1870-1909. History of European Ideas, 38(4), 570-589. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2011.652474 [details]
2010
- van Ree, E. (2010). 'Socialism in one country' before Stalin: German origins. Journal of Political Ideologies, 15(2), 143-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569310903570405 [details]
- van Ree, E. (2010). Lenin's conception of socialism in one country, 1915-17. Revolutionary Russia, 23(2), 159-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2010.523068 [details]
- van Ree, E. (2010). The Stalinist self: the case of Ioseb Jughashvili (1898-1907). Kritika, 11(2), 257-282. https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.0.0155 [details]
2008
- van Ree, E. (2008). Reluctant terrorists? Transcaucasian social-democracy, 1901-1909. Europe-Asia Studies, 60(1), 127-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130701803057 [details]
2007
- van Ree, E. (2007). Heroes and merchants: Stalin's understanding of national character. Kritika, 8(1), 41-65. https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.2007.0010 [details]
2002
- van Ree, E. (2002). The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin. A Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism. London, New York: RoutledgeCurzon. [details]
- van Ree, E. (2002). Drugs, the democratic civilising process and the consumer society. International Journal of Drug Policy, 13(5), 349-353. [details]
2001
2000
- van Ree, E. (2000). Stalin as a Marxist Philospher. Studies in East-European thought, 52(4), 259-308. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008778427629 [details]
1999
1998
- van Ree, E. (1998). Socialism in one country: a reassessment. Studies in East-European thought, 50, 77-117. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008651325136 [details]
1994
- van Ree, E. (1994). Stalin's Bolshevism: the first decade. International Review of Social History, 39(4), 361-381. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000112738 [details]
1993
- van Ree, E. (1993). Stalin's organic theory of the party. The Russian Review, 52(1), 43-57. https://doi.org/10.2307/130857
1989
- van Ree, E. (1989). Socialism in One Zone. Stalin's Policy in Korea, 1945-1947. Berg Publishers.
- van Ree, E. (1989). The Limits of Juche: North Korea’s Dependence on Soviet Industrial Aid, 1953-76. Journal of Communist Studies, 5(1), 50-73.
2023
- van Ree, E. (2023). [Review of: C. Wynn (2022) The Moderate Bolshevik : Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936]. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 65(3-4), 545-547. https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2023.2277064 [details]
- van Ree, E. (2023). [Review of: S. Paxton (2021) Unlearning Marx : Why the Soviet Failure was a Triumph for Marx]. Studies in Marxism, 16, 174-179. [details]
2021
- van Ree, E. (Author). (2021). Karl Marx's posthumous success. Web publication or website https://www.ideology-theory-practice.org/blog/karl-marxs-posthumous-success
2016
- van Ree, E. (2016). Lenin (1870-1924), Stalin (1878-1953), and nationalism. In J. Stone, R. M. Dennis, A. D. Smith, P. S. Rizova, & X. Hou (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of race, ethnicity and nationalism (Vol. 3). (Wiley Blackwell encyclopedias in social sciences). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118663202.wberen403 [details]
2014
- van Ree, E. (2014). [Review of: J.A. Getty (2013) Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition]. Revolutionary Russia, 27(2), 175-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2014.973094 [details]
2013
- van Ree, E. (2013). Review essay: Problems of communism: Gulag authorities and Gulag victims [Review of: S.A. Barnes (2011) Death and redemption: the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society; S.F. Cohen (2011) The victims return: survivors of the Gulag after Stalin; F. Vasilevich Mochulsky, D. Kaple (2011) Gulag boss: a Soviet memoir]. International Review of Social History, 58(1), 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859012000776 [details]
2012
- van Ree, E. (2012). [Review of: J. Plamper (2012) The Stalin cult: a study in the alchemy of power]. Revolutionary Russia, 25(2), 235-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2012.726780 [details]
2010
- van Ree, E. (2010). Machtspolitieke en ideologische motieven in een twintigste-eeuwse dictatuur: Jozef Stalin. In A. van Heerikhuizen, I. de Jong, & M. van Montfrans (Eds.), Tweede levens: over personen en personages in de geschiedschrijving en de literatuur (pp. 136-151). Vossiuspers UvA. [details]
- van Ree, E. (2010). [Review of: J.A. Getty, O.V. Naumov (2008) Yezhov: the rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist"]. Journal of Modern History, 82(1), 249-251. https://doi.org/10.1086/649490 [details]
- van Ree, E. (2010). [Review of: N.E. Rosenfeldt (2009) The "Special" world: Stalin's power apparatus and the Soviet system's secret structures of communication]. Revolutionary Russia, 23(1), 140-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2010.483805 [details]
2008
- van Ree, E. (2008). Heroes and merchants: Joseph Stalin and the nations of Europe. In M. Wintle (Ed.), Imagining Europe: Europe and European civilisation as seen from its margins and by the rest of the world, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (pp. 51-72). (Multiple Europes; No. 42). Peter Lang. [details]
- van Ree, E. (2008). [Review of: D. Priestland (2007) Stalinism and the politics of mobilization : ideas, power, and terror in inter-war Russia]. Revolutionary Russia, 21(2), 219-221. http://x.doi.org/10.1080/09546540802461266 [details]
2005
2003
2001
2000
- van Ree, E. (2000). Nationalist elements in the work of Marx and Engels: a critical survey. MEGA - Studien, 6(1), 25-49. [details]
- van Ree, E. (2000). Ontstaan en teloorgang van de 'dictatuur van het proletariaat': Marx, Lenin, Stalin. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 113(3), 335-353. [details]
- van Ree, E. (2000). Stalin's bolshevism: the year of the revolution. Revolutionary Russia, 13(1), 29-54. [details]
1999
1997
- van Ree, E. (1997). Fear of drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 8(2), 93-100. [details]
- van Ree, E. (1997). Stalin and Marxism: a research note. Studies in East-European thought, 49(1), 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017935822255 [details]
1994
1993
- van Ree, E. (1993). Stalin's Organic Theory of the Party. The Russian Review, 52(1), 43-57. https://doi.org/10.2307/130857 [details]
1992
- van Ree, E. (1992). De Stalin-cultus: een elite organiseert haar eigen mythe. Theoretische Geschiedenis, 19(4), 414-422.
- van Ree, E., Loewenhardt, J., & Ozinga, J. R. (1992). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo. New York: St. Martin's Press.
1991
1988
- van Ree, E. (1988). The quest for purity in Communism. In W. E. A. van Beek (Ed.), The Quest for Purity. Dynamics of Puritan Movements (pp. 245-262). (Religion and Society). Mouton de Gruyter. [details]
- van Ree, E. (1988). The quest for purity in communism. In W. E. A. van Beek (Ed.), The Quest for Purity. Dynamics of Puritan Movements (pp. 245-262). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1984
- Hak, H., & van Ree, E. (1984). Was the older Mao still a Maoist? Journal of Contemporary Asia, 14(1), 82-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472338485390051
- van Ree, E. (1984). De tweede revolutie. Sociologische Gids, XXXI(6), 474-486.
2023
- van Ree, E. (2023). Woke, raciale blikvernauwing en onze gezamenlijke mensheid. Liberale Reflecties, 64(3), 50-56. https://assets-global.website-files.com/608652f7ca305dcf184dd274/659e9cc625bbf6c2e623d789_Woke%20raciale%20blikvernauwing%20en%20onze%20gezamenlijke%20menselijkheid%20door%20Erik%20van%20Ree.pdf
2012
- van Ree, E. (2012). Actualiteit van het communisme: voor herhaling vatbaar? Internationale Spectator, 66(1), 7-9. http://www.internationalespectator.nl/2012/20120100_is_art_vanree.pdf [details]
2010
- van Ree, E. (2010). Het heilige verdient erkenning en bespotting. De Groene Amsterdammer, 52-55.
2009
- van Ree, E. (2009). Het kind moet weer kind zijn. De Groene Amsterdammer, 28-33.
2008
- van Ree, E. (2008). Kinderporno, pedofilie en de tijdgeest. De Helling, 21(2), 8-13. http://www.dehelling.net/artikel/444/ [details]
2007
- van Ree, E. (2007). Ruim baan voor het ongewenste. De Groene Amsterdammer, 20-23.
2005
- van Ree, E. (2005). Wereldrevolutie. De communistische beweging van Marx tot Kim Jong Il. Amsterdam, Antwerpen: Mets & Schilt, Standaard Uitgeverij. [details]
2003
- Jansen, M. C., & van Ree, E. (2003). Stalin geloofde heilig in zijn eigen propagandaleuzen. Historisch Nieuwsblad, february, 9-15. [details]
2002
- van Ree, E. (2002). Fortuyns natie. De Groene Amsterdammer, 28-32.
- van Ree, E. (2002). Het belang van vrij debat. De Groene Amsterdammer, 22-25.
- van Ree, E. (2002). Voor volk en vaderland. De Groene Amsterdammer, 26-29.
2001
- van Ree, E. (2001). Zin en onzin van het totalitaire model. In A. Gerrits (Ed.), Een bizar experiment. De lange schaduw van de Sovjet-Unie (1919-1991) (pp. 61-74). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [details]
1998
- van Ree, E. (1998). Het onderwerpingssprookje van Oranje. In T. Rooduijn (Ed.), De Republiek der Nederlanden. Pleidooien voor het afschaffen van de monarchie (pp. 50-60). Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij.
1997
- van Ree, E. (1997). Is de mens een lemming? Enige bespiegelingen over een twintigste eeuwse waan. Socialisme en Democratie, 54(7/8), 333-340. [details]
1996
- van Ree, E. (1996). Jozef Stalin tussen communisme en traditie. Athenaeum Illustre, 6, 28-31. [details]
- van Ree, E. (1996). Tolerantie: het "Osmaanse" versus het moderne model. In K. Koch, & P. Scheffer (Eds.), Het nut van Nederland: opstellen over soevereiniteit en identiteit (pp. 85-101). Bert Bakker. [details]
1992
- van Ree, E. (1992). Stalin's monster: Lavrenti Beria. In M. C. Jansen, & E. van Ree (Eds.), Russische Schurken (pp. 203-224). Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers.
1991
- van Ree, E. (1991). De muis die brulde. In A. Koper, C. Vecht, & M. van Weezel (Eds.), Alles moest anders. Het onvervulde verlangen van een linkse generatie (pp. 37-47). Nijgh & Van Ditmar.
1989
- van Ree, E. (1989). Bloedbroeders. Stalin, Hitler en Hun Pact. Amsterdam: Jan Mets.
1984
- van Ree, E. (1984). De Totalitaire Paradox. De Terrorische Massademocratie van Stalin en Mao. Amsterdam: Van Gennep.
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van Ree, E. (2023). "Standing against a State Requires the State": Exploring Revolutionary Etatization. Journal of Political & Military Sociology, 50(1), 1-31.