Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship

A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracyusing the past as a road map to navigate the complexities of todays turn toward authoritarianism.

In Empire of Terror Mark D.

At least 70% of the world's population now lives under an autocracy.

Musicians have often wanted to change the world.

«El Estado dual» es un clásico de la literatura sobre el ordenamiento político y jurídico del Tercer Reich.

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "e;the left"e; as we know it today In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality.

What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher?

Was bedeutete NS-Herrschaft für Provinzzeitungen in der Bayerischen Ostmark, für die Münchener Kammerspiele, für katholische Jugendorganisationen in Eichstätt oder für die bayerische Industriewirtschaft?

Die konkrete Lebenswelt Oppositioneller wird in der bisherigen Forschung zu Opposition und Widerstand in der DDR wenig beachtet.

In February 2021 the Canadian government published a considerably expanded list of domestic terrorist entities.

This volume examines the causes, consequences, and dynamics of that style of governance by force that has come to be known as state terror.

Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West.

An exhaustively researched account of late-Mao power strategy and its consequences on elite dynamics in subsequent decades, including the rise of Xi.

The concept of political plasticity is a powerful new tool for understanding change and continuity in behavior.

With populist, nationalist and repressive governments on the rise around the world, questioning the impact of politics on the nature and role of law and the state is a pressing concern.

Stalin's Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945.

The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic.

From the worlds most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people.

Building the Wall is a gripping political thriller from Robert Schenkkan, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright and Academy award nominee.

_______________A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history but above all to China' Peter Frankopan, TLS'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today's China and what the Chinese Communist Party's choices mean for the rest of the world' New Statesman Books of the YearChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2023_______________From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman MaoIn China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dik tter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Schneidkeramik" verfügbar.

Challenging the notion of China as merely a repressive dictatorship, Heurlin shows that policymaking has been surprisingly responsive to protests.

Conversations with Milosevic is a firsthand portrayal of the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, the Serbian president whose ambitions sparked the Bosnian conflict.

Shows that the most widespread and malignant dictatorships today emerge by attracting genuine popular support in societies plagued by crises.

A unique and revealing portrait of Saddam Hussein''s Iraq which was every bit as authoritarian and brutal as Stalin''s Russia or Mao''s China.

Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West.

Work played a central role in Nazi ideology and propaganda, and even today there remain some who still emphasize the supposedly positive aspects of the regime s labor policies, ignoring the horrific and inhumane conditions they produced.

An FT Best Book of the Year'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he transformed the Afghan media landscape and brought serious news, and exceptional entertainment to millions in the most testing circumstances imaginable' Rory StewartThe deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan.

This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism.

Launches a new research agenda on one of the most common but overlooked features of the democratization experience worldwide: authoritarian successor parties.

Das Studienbuch fuhrt systematisch, umfassend und historisch eingebettet in die Entstehungs-, Funktions- und Entwicklungsbedingungen nicht-demokratischer Regime der Gegenwart ein.

Das vorliegende Buch "Das Pippi Langstrumpf Syndrom" betrachtet den Einfluss von Geopolitik auf die vergangenen etwa 120 Jahre.

History ended, according to Hegel according to Kojève, with the establishment and proliferation in Europe of states organized along Napoleonic lines: rational, bureaucratic, homogenous, atheist.

With an introduction by Kamila Shamsie Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

In a searing takedown of the populist authoritarian vision of America, The Terror of the Unforeseen tackles the resurgence of fascism in the age of Donald Trump's presidency.

A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism.

The Gestapo was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the Nazi regime: socialists, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be an 'anti-social element'.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"e;a fascinating reflection on totalitarianism as refracted through Orwell's times and our own"e; The GuardianLondon, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania.

Told through the lives of the American Centurys most talented and stubborn dissidents,Flightsis the archetypal heros journey of a group of progressives whose struggle for truth, and for freedom from persecution, sent them into exile, both literal and metaphorical.

Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written.

**NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER **THE BOOK TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHY DEMOCRACY IS FAILING IN 2025 The most coherent manifesto on confronting Trump New StatesmanIn the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism.

'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment?

Martí Marín, un dels grans experts sobre el franquisme, analitza i sistematitza amb el rigor que li és característic l'especificitat de la política franquista a Catalunya.