Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes in Europe: Legacies and Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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Jerzy W. Borejsza, Klaus Ziemer, Magdalena Hułas, Niemiecki instytut historyczny (Varsovie)
Berghahn Books, 2006 - Political Science - 607 pages
The concept of Totalitarianism has been widely, and often hotly, debated, one major issue being whether this term can be equally applied to quite different authoritarian regimes such as fascism, Nazism or communism. This volume is the first attempt to analyze, on a large scale, totalitarian and authoritarian systems in Europe, both in a long-term historical perspective and immediately after their collapse. Often using new archival material, historians, legal scholars, political scientists, and sociologists from fourteen different countries explore traditional concepts and typologies of totalitarianism and authoritarianism and discuss the transformation of these regimes into democratic systems over the last decade.
 

Contents

Three Forms of Totalitarianism
3
Stalinism National Socialism and Their 25
25
What Was Not Allowed to Be Written about Coming to Terms with
53
the Perception of Totalitarianism in Italy in a 70
70
Polish Interpretations of Bolshevism and Totalitarian Systems 19181939
80
How Slovak Historiography is Coming to Terms with a Dual Past
106
Strategies of Dealing with the Past in
123
The Historians Approach to Germanys National Socialist Past
139
The Nature and Perspectives of Bolshevism through the RSDWP
330
Three Experiments
343
the Birth of the Political System of the
373
Policy for Dealing with
399
an Important Contribution
431
Have We Succeeded in Coming to Terms with the Past? A Comparison of
449
Historical Memory and Legislative Changes in Romania
464
How the Federal Republic of Germany Dealt
481

Factors in Their Decline and
158
Paragon of the Totalitarian Conception
177
Stabilisation of Power through Social and Consumer Policy in the GDR
209
Croatias Experience
228
the Transformation of the Developed Socialist State
276
Authoritarianism
297
the Case of
313
The Communist Past in Postcommunist Russia
516
The Concept of Totalitarianism in Italian Culture after 1945
541
Stalin in Soviet and Russian History Textbooks from the 1930s to
556
Historical Memory and Monument
569
Index
587
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