Totalitarian Dictatorship: New Histories (Routledge Studies in Modern European History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138957402 ISBN 13: 9781138957404

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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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Review

"...this collection...brings together a fine cast of leading historians...to rethink aspects of twentieth-century European totalitarians dictatorships. The editors deserve praise for having assembled a strong collection of essays which are likely to prompt further debate on the nature of twentieth-century European dictatorships." -Christian Goeschel, University of Manchester, UK

About the Author

Daniela Baratieri is an Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Western Australia.

Mark Edele is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.

Giuseppe Finaldi is Associate Professor in History at the University of Western Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138957402
• ISBN 13: 9781138957404
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Baratieri Daniela, Edele Mark, Finaldi Giuseppe