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.
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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.
"Writing a comparative history of twentieth-century European dictatorships is an ambitious undertaking, but it is one that Gerhard Besier and Katarzyna Stoklosa have completed with success. [...] The meat in the 612 pages of text is very rewarding. One will find within it a greater understanding of the historical processes that led to the fascist and socialist dictatorships that dominated much of Europe's twentieth century and how they contributed to some of the difficulties today."Porter R. BlakemoreUniversity of Mary WashingtonThe Historian, 78: 1 (2016)
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781443851299
Publisert
2013-10-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Høyde
212 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
710