Totalitarian dictatorship new histories

"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 sp...

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Weitere Verfasser: Baratieri, Daniela (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Routledge 2013
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in modern European history 19
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 267 S.
ISBN:9781138957404
978-1-138-95740-4
9780415837057
978-0-415-83705-7