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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David D Roberts |
ISBN: | 0415192781 041519279X 9780415192781 9780415192798 |
OCLC Number: | 58478540 |
Description: | xii, 579 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Layers, proportions, and the question of historical specificity -- Seams, creases, and the emergence of new conditions of possibility in the nineteenth century -- Some diagnoses and prescriptions -- Innovative departures in the wake of the Great War -- The totalitarian dynamics of Leninism-Stalinism -- Conflicted totalitarianism in fascist Italy -- The hollow triumph of the will in Nazi Germany -- The epochal commonality of the three regimes -- Ending and continuing after the totalitarian moment. |
Responsibility: | David D. Roberts. |
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By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this work provides a different understanding of 'totalitarianism', the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. It's analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject, sheds light on the common origins and practices of the regimes.
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- Soviet Union.
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