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Author Besier, Gerhard, author.

Title European dictatorships : a comparative history of the twentieth century / by Gerhard Besier and Katarzyna Stokłosa
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 683 pages) : map
Contents Section I. From the First World War to the end of the Second World War -- Section II. From the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the transition processes
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-656) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Dictatorship -- Europe
Authoritarianism -- Europe
Socialism -- Europe
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Authoritarianism
Dictatorship
Politics and government
Socialism
SUBJECT Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045748
Subject Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Stokłosa, Katarzyna, author.
ISBN 9781443855211
1443855219
130630931X
9781306309318