Waldemar Gurian

Waldemar Gurian
Born	February 13, 1902 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	May 26, 1954 (aged 52) South Haven, Michigan, USA
Ethnicity	Jewish
Employer	University of Notre Dame
Religion	Christianity
Denomination	Catholicism

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.