Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes in Europe: Legacies and Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyJerzy W. Borejsza, Klaus Ziemer, Magdalena Hułas, Niemiecki instytut historyczny (Varsovie) 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 |
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