Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship

Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities.

This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens'' lives.

Following his country's victory over Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin was widely hailed as a great wartime leader and international statesman.

The term coup d'tat--French for stroke of the state--brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own hands as dictators.

This book examines Nazi Germany's expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens.

Dieser Band widmet sich der Frage, mit welchen Bildern, Stereotypen, Konstruktionen, Mustern und Deutungen die DDR in Literatur, Film und Internet rückblickend erinnert wird.

How Brazil's long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country's present crises and epidemic of violenceBrazil has long nurtured a cherished national myth, one of a tolerant, peaceful, and racially harmonious society.

This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics-requires a perspective that spans the democracy/autocracy divide.

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The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss.

The challenge of maintaining dictatorial regimes through control, co-option and coercion while upholding a facade of legitimacy is something that has concerned leaders throughout the Middle East and beyond.

Das Institut für Kirchen- und Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa hatte wenige Jahre nach der politischen Wende erstmals die Rolle der katholischen Kirche unter nationalsozialistischer und kommunistischer Diktatur untersucht und festgestellt, dass totalitäre Systeme keine »unveränderlichen Größen« sind, Entwicklungen daher auch in der Diachronizität zu differenzieren, Heterogenität in den kommunistischen Parteien zu berücksichtigen seien.

Looks at how Nigeria''s political parties compete for power in a context of transition, terrorism, and religious and ethnic tension.

#1 New York Times Bestseller A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes todays world, written by one of the most admired public servants in American history, the first woman to serve as U.

My great friend and author of 'Dark Agenda,' David Horowitz, is out with a new book, 'Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last.

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.

Spanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present.

Combining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the story of psychologist Nicolae Margineanu's imprisonment and survival conveys in striking detail the corrosive impact of Communist rule in Romania.

Reveals how political change and economic development led to the collapse of democracy and the origins of the Spanish Civil War.

Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

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Zuerst haben sie sich gegenseitig mit der atomaren Vernichtung bedroht.

A groundbreaking history of Europe's "e;new lefts,"e; from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960sIn the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics of reform.

In Empire of Terror Mark D.

Explores issues of global relevance around journalism''s relationship with political power through the lens of Southeast Asian states.

In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo.

Following his country's victory over Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin was widely hailed as a great wartime leader and international statesman.

How Brazil's long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country's present crises and epidemic of violenceBrazil has long nurtured a cherished national myth, one of a tolerant, peaceful, and racially harmonious society.

A decade after the collapse of communism, this volume presents a historical reflection on the perplexing nature of the East German dictatorship.

From the introduction: "e;Throughout Serbia's history no leader has risen to become as powerful and celebrated as Slobodan Milosevic, or fallen as low.

What does a religious community do when confronted by a political regime determined to eliminate religion?

Gandhi''s cross-national study examines the political uses of nominally democratic institutions by non-democratic states.

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

A conservative take on the antifascist movement Antifascism argues that current self-described antifascists are not struggling against a reappearance of interwar fascism, and that the Left that claims to be opposing fascism has little in common with any earlier Left, except for some overlap with critical theorists of the Frankfurt School.

Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies.

How remittances-money sent by workers back to their home countries-support democratic expansionIn the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration.

A deeply relevant look at what fascism means to Americans.

Examines how authoritarian regimes employ labour emigration in order to remain in power, both in Egypt and beyond.

Whats it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator?

Explains how autocrats compete in unfair elections in Africa and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of modern authoritarianism.

Getting growth going has been rare in the developing world-since 1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining high growth.

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.

Confronting Evil links honest recognition and acknowledgement of twentieth century evils to our future as a moral human culture.