Waldemar Gurian

Waldemar Gurian (February 13, 1902—May 26, 1954) was a Russian-born German-American political scientist, author, and professor at the University of Notre Dame. He is regarded particularly as a theorist of totalitarianism as well as political Catholicism.

Selected bibliography

• The political and social ideas of French Catholicism, 1789-1914, 1929.
• The integral nationalism in France: Charles Maurras and the Action Française, 1931.
• Bolshevism: Theory and Practice, New York, Macmillan, 1932.
• Hitler and the Christians. Studies in Fascism: Ideology and Practice, AMS Press, 1936, 175 p.
• The Future of Bolshevism, Sheed & Ward, 1936, 125 p.
• The Rise and Decline of Marxism, Oates & Washbourne, 1938, 184 p.
• Russia and the Peace, 1945.
• Soviet Russia: A University of Notre Dame Symposium, University of Notre Dame, 1950.
• "The Development of the Soviet Regime: From Lenin to Stalin", The Soviet Union: Background, Ideology, Reality, University of Notre Dame Press, 1951.
• Bolshevism: An Introduction to Soviet Communism, University of Notre Dame Press, 1952.
• Soviet Imperialism: Its Origins and Tactics, a Symposium, (ed.), University of Notre Dame Press, 1953.
• The Catholic Church in World Affairs (with M.A. Fitzsimons), University of Notre Dame Press, 1954, 420 p.
• "Totalitarianism as Political Religion", Totalitarianism, New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1964.