The Totalitarian Experiment In Twentieth Century Europe

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134651177

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The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe by David Roberts Pdf

By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of ‘totalitarianism’, the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. The book’s original analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject sheds light on the common origins and practices of the regimes. Through this fresh appreciation of their initial frame of mind, Roberts demonstrates how the three political experiments yielded unprecedented collective mobilization but also a characteristic combination of radicalization, myth-making, and failure. Providing deep historical analysis, the book proves that 'totalitarianism' best characterizes the common features in the originating aspirations, the mode of action and even the outcomes of Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. By enhancing our knowledge of what ‘totalitarianism’ was and where it came from, Roberts affords important lessons about the ongoing challenges, possibilities, and dangers of the modern political experiment.

Author : David D. Roberts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Communism
ISBN : 9780415192781

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The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth-century Europe by David D. Roberts Pdf

By assessing totalitarianism in a more deeply historical way, this study suggests how we might learn further lessons from this troubling phase of modern political development."--Jacket.

Author : Jerzy W. Borejsza,Klaus Ziemer,Magdalena Hułas,Niemiecki instytut historyczny (Varsovie)
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1571816410

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Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes in Europe by Jerzy W. Borejsza,Klaus Ziemer,Magdalena Hułas,Niemiecki instytut historyczny (Varsovie) Pdf

Based on a conference organized by the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the German Historical Institute, Warsaw, held in Sept. 2000.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134651184

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The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe by David Roberts Pdf

By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of ‘totalitarianism’, the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. The book’s original analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject sheds light on the common origins and practices of the regimes. Through this fresh appreciation of their initial frame of mind, Roberts demonstrates how the three political experiments yielded unprecedented collective mobilization but also a characteristic combination of radicalization, myth-making, and failure. Providing deep historical analysis, the book proves that 'totalitarianism' best characterizes the common features in the originating aspirations, the mode of action and even the outcomes of Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. By enhancing our knowledge of what ‘totalitarianism’ was and where it came from, Roberts affords important lessons about the ongoing challenges, possibilities, and dangers of the modern political experiment.

Author : Jerzy W. Borejsza,Klaus Ziemer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authoritarianism
ISBN : 1571816410

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Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes in Europe by Jerzy W. Borejsza,Klaus Ziemer Pdf

Based on a conference organized by the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the German Historical Institute, Warsaw, held in Sept. 2000.

Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520282209

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The Devil in History by Vladimir Tismaneanu Pdf

The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author’s personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth century’s experiments in social engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and occasionally strikingly similar systems of political totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, the place of violence within these systems, and their legacies in contemporary politics. The author discusses thinkers who have shaped contemporary understanding of totalitarian movements—people such as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, François Furet, Tony Judt, Ian Kershaw, Leszek Kolakowski, Richard Pipes, and Robert C. Tucker. As much a theoretical analysis of the practical philosophies of Marxism-Leninism and Fascism as it is a political biography of particular figures, this book deals with the incarnation of diabolically nihilistic principles of human subjugation and conditioning in the name of presumably pure and purifying goals. Ultimately, the author claims that no ideological commitment, no matter how absorbing, should ever prevail over the sanctity of human life. He comes to the conclusion that no party, movement, or leader holds the right to dictate to the followers to renounce their critical faculties and to embrace a pseudo-miraculous, a mystically self-centered, delusional vision of mandatory happiness.

Author : Gerhard Besier,Katarzyna Stokłosa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443855211

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European Dictatorships by Gerhard Besier,Katarzyna Stokłosa Pdf

How could it happen that continental Europe became a “Europe of the Dictatorships“ in the twentieth century? It requires some effort to understand such processes. It is insufficient to observe merely the dictatorships and their mechanisms, one must also incorporate the seemingly harmless history leading up to that time and, above all, the transitions that took place. The book begins with a description of the historical situation after the First World War. Europe’s brutalization through colonial wars and inter-European conflicts, carried out using means of mass extermination, led to fractures in civilized cultures. What follows in the second section is another state-by-state organized design of the transition from countries that were fascist (and countries that were made fascist) into communist states established in accordance with the Soviet model. The third part of the book is devoted to the history of the “Eastern Bloc” states from 1953 to 2013.

Author : MATTHEW. FELDMAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474272592

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TOTALITARIANISM IN 20TH-CENTURY EUROPE. by MATTHEW. FELDMAN Pdf

Author : Abbott Gleason
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190281489

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Totalitarianism by Abbott Gleason Pdf

For more than six decades, the term "totalitarian" was applied to everything from Franco's Spain to Stalin's Soviet Union. One of the most enigmatic and yet compelling ideas of our time, it has been both an almost meaningless political catcall and an indispensable concept for understanding the dictatorships that have marred the history of this century. Now historian Abbott Gleason provides a fascinating account of the life of this idea. Totalitarianism offers a penetrating chronicle of the central concept of our era--an era shaped by our conflict first with fascism and then with communism. Interweaving the story of intellectual debates with the international history of the twentieth century, Gleason traces the birth of the term to Italy in the first years of Mussolini's rule. Created by Mussolini's enemies, the word was appropriated by the Fascists themselves to describe their program in what turned out to be one of the less totalitarian of the European dictatorships. He follows the growth and expansion of the concept as it was picked up in the West and applied to Hitler's Germany and the Soviet Union. Gleason's account takes us through the debates of the early postwar years, as academics in turn adopted the term--notably Hannah Arendt. The idea of totalitarianism came to possess novelists such as Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) and George Orwell (whose Nineteen Eighty-Four was interpreted by conservatives as an attack on socialism in general, and subsequently suffered criticism from left-leaning critics). The concept fully entered the public consciousness with the opening of the Cold War, as Truman used the rhetoric of totalitarianism to sell the Truman Doctrine to Congress. Gleason takes a fascinating look at the notorious brainwashing episodes of the Korean War, which convinced Americans that Communist China too was a totalitarian state. As he takes his account through to the 1990s, he offers an inner history of the Cold War, revealing the political charge the term carried for writers on both the left and right. He also explores the intellectual struggles that swirled around the idea in France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. When the Cold War drew to a close in the late 1980s, Gleason writes, the concept lost much of its importance in the West even as it flourished in Russia, where writers began to describe their own collapsing state as totalitarian--though left-wing Western thinkers had long resisted doing so. Abbott Gleason is a leading scholar of Soviet and Russian history and a contributor to periodicals ranging from The Russian Review to The Atlantic Monthly. In this stimulating intellectual history, he offers a revealing look at one of the central concepts of modern times.

Author : Jay Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Totalitarianism
ISBN : UVA:X002231449

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The Rise and Fall of Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century by Jay Taylor Pdf

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633863107

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Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe by Sabrina P. Ramet Pdf

Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they associated with modern culture. But rather than seeking to return to earlier ways of working these movements and regimes sought to design a new future – an alternative future – that would restore the nation to spiritual and political health. The Fascists, for their part, specifically promoted palingenesis, which is to say the spiritual rebirth of the nation. The book closes with a long epilogue, in which Ramet defends liberal democracy, highlighting its strengths and advantages. In this chapter, the author identifies five key choke points, which would-be authoritarians typically seek to control, subvert, or instrumentalize: electoral rules, the judiciary, the media, hate speech, and surveillance, and looks at the cases of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, Jarosław Kaczyński’s Poland, and Donald Trump’s United States.

Author : Martin Blinkhorn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : 9780049400870

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Fascists and Conservatives by Martin Blinkhorn Pdf

In this fascinating text, thirteen leading authorities on the European right examine the complex relationship between the 'radical' and the 'conservative' in twentieth-century Europe, exploring the theme across a broad range of European countries.What has between the 'radical' and the 'conservative' right in twentieth-century Europe? In Fascists and Conservatives thirteen distinguished authorities on the European right explore this major theme within Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Austria, Romania, Greece adn the Nordic countries.

Author : Lisa Pine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350209077

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Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe by Lisa Pine Pdf

Bringing together leading scholars from across the UK, North America and mainland Europe, this book provides a uniquely comparative exploration of daily life under dictatorship in 20th-century Europe. With coverage of well-known regimes and some that are relatively underrepresented in the literature from right across the continent, it examines the impact felt on people's lives amidst political administrations characterised by some or all of the following: a one-party state, in which opposition or multiple parties were banned; a cult surrounding the leader; the censorship of the press and other publications; the widespread use of propaganda and political persuasion; and the threat or use of force by the regime and its agents. The chapters investigate crucial questions in relation to life under dictatorships as follows: · What was the impact of censorship on access to news or entertainment? · How was leisure time conducted? · What was the impact of the regime on working life? · What was the scope for dissent and resistance? To what extent were these possible? · How much did the regime coerce the population and how much did it try to indoctrinate? · What was the difference for Party leaders, comrades and members in terms of the possibilities and opportunities that opened up, compared to everyone else in society? · With the shutting down – to a large extent – of civil society and state intrusion into private life, what restrictions were placed on ordinary and day-to-day activities? · What happened to religious life and to cultural life and the arts? · How were personal choices in aspects of life such as reproduction, education and even eating affected by these regimes? · What was the impact of different political ideologies on people's way of life – whether Fascist, Nazi or Communist? Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe addresses these issues and more, striking to the heart of European life in the darkest episodes of its recent history.

Author : Michael Adas,American Historical Association
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439902714

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Essays on Twentieth-Century History by Michael Adas,American Historical Association Pdf

Probing the paradoxes of "the long twentieth century"--Unprecedented human opportunity and deprivation to the rise of the United States as a hegemon

Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu,Jordan Luber
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633864067

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One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments by Vladimir Tismaneanu,Jordan Luber Pdf

Why has communism’s humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin’s coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the varieties of communist fantasies of salvation, and the remaining three consider how communist experiments over many different times and regions attempted to manage economics, politics, as well as society and culture. Although each communist project was adapted to the situation of the country where it operated, the studies in this volume find that because of its ideological nature, communism had a consistent penchant for totalitarianism in all of its manifestations. This book is also concerned with the future. As the world witnesses a new wave of ideological authoritarianism and collectivistic projects, the authors of the nineteen essays suggest lessons from their analyses of communism’s past to help better resist totalitarian projects in the future.