Research Catalog

Title

European dictatorships, 1918-1945 / Stephen J. Lee.

Author

Lee, Stephen J., 1945-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Details

Description

xv, 408 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Dictators
• History
• Geschichte 1918-1945
• 1900-1999
• Europa (geografie)
• Dictatuur
• Dictators > Europe > History > 20th century
• Europe > Politics and government > 1918-1945

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [388]-393) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dictatorships: comparative timeline 1918-45 -- Prologue: the seventeen dictatorships, 1918-45 -- 1. The setting for dictatorship -- The period before 1914 -- The impact of the First World War -- The peace settlement and its significance -- The crisis of democracy -- The role of modernity -- The economic catalyst -- 2. Types of dictatorship -- Dictatorship as a concept -- Totalitarian or authoritarian regimes? -- The ideological basis of dictatorship -- Summary -- 3. Dictatorship in Russia -- Lenin's regime, 1917-24 -- The succession, 1924-9 -- Stalin's rule to 1941 -- Soviet foreign policy, 1918-41 -- The Great Patriotic War, 1941-5 -- 1945-53: mature dictatorship? -- Reflections on Stalin's dictatorship -- 4. Dictatorship in Italy -- The rise of Mussolini to 1922: an outline -- The rise of Mussolini to 1922: an explanation -- Mussolini's dictatorship, 1922-43 -- Mussolini's foreign policy, 1922-40 -- War and collapse, 1940-5 -- The Italian Social Republic, 1943-5: a return to the beginning? -- Reflections on Mussolini's dictatorship -- 5. Dictatorship in Germany -- The Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, 1918-33 -- Explanations of the rise of Hitler -- The Third Reich, 1933-45 -- German foreign policy, 1919-39 -- Germany at war, 1939-45 -- The Holocaust -- Reflections on Hitler's dictatorship -- 6. Dictatorship elsewhere -- Dictatorship in Portugal and Spain -- Dictatorship in central and eastern Europe -- Dictatorship in the Balkans and Turkey -- Puppet dictatorships from democracies -- 7. Dictatorships compared -- The role of ideology -- Leadership -- State, party and army -- Social control -- Security and terror -- Economies -- Impact of war -- Epilogue: Europe since 1945.

ISBN

• 9780415454841 (hbk.)
• 0415454840 (hbk.)
• 9780415454858 (pbk.)
• 0415454859 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007039717

OCLC

• 173480635
• SCSB-10968922

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library