European Dictatorships

A Comparative History of the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5129-9
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 710 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Besier, Gerhard

Stoklosa, Katarzyna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Gerhard Besier is a theologian, historian and psychologist. After professorships in Berlin, Heidelberg and Dresden he now is Director of the Sigmund Neumann Institute for the Research on Freedom, Liberty and Democracy in Dresden. He has published widely on the themes of German-Polish antagonisms, transformation processes in Europe since 1945, European dictatorships, confessional controversies in Germany, Europe and the USA, and on stereotypes and prejudices.

Katarzyna Stoklosa is Associate Professor in the Department of Border Region Studies at the University of Sønderborg, Denmark. She finished her PhD at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and her habilitation thesis at the University of Potsdam. She has published various books and articles on European border regions in comparison, on European history and nationalism.