Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship

The foreign policies of Turkey and Iran seem increasingly to dictate the course of events in the Middle East.

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

An up-to-date, succinct and highly readable survey of a compelling subject, making accessible classic and recent research on Nazi Germany.

Offers the first systematic comparative analysis of the conditions under which populism slides into illiberal rule and the prospects for US democracy.

Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliche.

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

Was passiert wirklich in China?

Die Umweltbilanz der DDR fällt bitter aus.

For more than half a century, the Brazilian army used fear and censorship to erase aspects of its history from public memory and to create its own political myths.

Historians and political theorists consider the subject of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dictatorships.

This book systematically explains why some countries are democracies while others are not.

This work seeks to explain the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.

In this classic study, now available in English for the first time, the late Spanish philosopher Gonzalo Fernndez de la Mora reconsiders the antithesis of pathos and logos in the political realm.

How does the ideal state look like?

In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East.

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?

Offers a complex consideration of the relationship of mass terror and utopianism under the fascist government of wartime Croatia.

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.

The developments of early 2011 changes the political landscape of the Middle East.

Why did the propaganda efforts that succeeded so thoroughly in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany fail so drastically in Greece?

This book analyzes why some dictators find it in their self-interest to curb corruption.

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

Exploring the activities of the Chinese Communist Party''s rank and file membership base, Koss advances our understanding of authoritarian parties.

Full of political intrigue and corruption, Smouldering Charcoal illustrates the devastating injustice inflicted on society by the ruling classes in postcolonial Malawi.

The only book of its kind, The New Inquisitions is an exhilarating investigation into the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.

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Compares the crucial role of Arab armies in state building, a decade after the 2011 Arab Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.

Offers the first systematic comparative analysis of the conditions under which populism slides into illiberal rule and the prospects for US democracy.

Civil society groups can strengthen an autocratic state''s coercive capacity, helping to suppress dissent and implement far-reaching policies.

In the midst of the political upheavals that engulfed Myanmar from 2010 to 2011, international attention was fixed upon the military regime and its dissident opponents.

Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China.

This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century.

This book presents a uniquely dynamic and fluid model of political evolution in the world''s largest and most powerful authoritarian regime.

Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West.

Proposes that a distinct strain of literary modernism emerged in Europe in response to historical catastrophe.

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARWho said that dictatorship was dead?

The interconnection between international organizations (IOs) membership and democratization has become a topic of intense debate.

In 1990, BLOOD IN THE FACE: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, andthe Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far-right movement.

The interconnection between international organizations (IOs) membership and democratization has become a topic of intense debate.

The totalitarian systems that arose in the twentieth century presented themselves as secular.

An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope.

'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.

Concerns over the rise of fascism have been preoccupied with the Trump presidency and the Brexit vote in the UK, yet, globally, we are witnessing a turn towards anti-democratic and illiberal forces.

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