The totalitarian experiment in twentieth-century Europe :
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[Book]
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understanding the poverty of great politics /
First Statement of Responsibility
David D. Roberts.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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London :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xii, 579 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-566) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of 'totalitarianism', the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. The book's original analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject sheds light on the common origins and practices of the regimes.Through this fresh appreciation of their initial frame of mind, Roberts demonstrates how the three political experiments yielded unprecedented collective mobilization but also a characteristic combination of radicalization, myth-makin.
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Title
Totalitarian experiment in twentieth-century Europe.