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Totalitarian Dictatorship: New Histories

By Mark Edele , Daniela Baratieri , Giuseppe Finaldi

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
0415837057, 9780415837057
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2681173 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Pages
280\280
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-05-30 00:20:38

Description

This volume takes a comparative approach, locating totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents and differently envisaged futures to enhance our understanding of this fraught era in European history. It shows that no matter how often totalitarian societies spoke of and imagined their subjects as so many slates to be wiped clean and re-written on, older identities, familial loyalties and the enormous resilience of the individual (or groups of individuals) meant that the almost impossible demands of their regimes needed to be constantly transformed, limited and recast.

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