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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824695903321

Autore

Besier Gerhard

Titolo

European dictatorships : a comparative history of the twentieth century / / by Gerhard Besier and Katarzyna Stokłosa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-5521-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (693 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StokłosaKatarzyna

Disciplina

940.510922

Soggetti

Dictators - Europe

Europe Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section I. From the First World War to the end of the Second World War -- section II. From the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the transition processes.

Sommario/riassunto

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 colon...