LEADER 03740oam 22006134a 450 001 9910793828003321 005 20191210193315.0 010 $a963-386-310-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000009844409 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5982507 035 $a(OCoLC)1127979520 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72440 035 $a(DE-B1597)633508 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789633863107 035 $a(OCoLC)1338020897 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009844409 100 $a20181025d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century$eCollectivist Visions of Alternative Modernity /$fSabrina P. Ramet 210 1$aNew York :$cCEU Press,$d2019. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2019 210 4$dİ2019. 215 $a1 online resource (494 pages) 311 $a963-386-309-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRival visions of alternative modernity: an introduction -- An evolving vision of an alternative modernity: Soviet communism -- The quest for an alternative modernity: Fascism and Nazism, part I -- The quest for an alternative modernity: Fascism and Nazism, part II -- The quest for freedom and solidarity: anarchism in Spain -- Epilogue: in defense of liberal democracy and a warning. 330 $a"An original work of historical synthesis by an esteemed international scholar, this book offers the first comparative analysis of the four different types of collectivism (communism, Fascism; Nazism; anarchism) in twentieth-century Europe which aspired to create an 'alternative modernity'. The author presents not only the authoritarian alternatives to democracy of the past century, but also the experiment with anarchism undertaken in Spain in the late 1930s. The concept of the analysis is to show how these political systems are driven by rival visions of alternative modernity and how the prioritization of values plays out in politics. Each political concept discussed in the book found support among broad sectors of its respective population at one time or another, and were championed by professionals in the countries in which they took hold. The political vision which guided the construction (or in the anarchist case, attempted construction) of an alternative to democracy, oriented to an alternative future, is discussed in a balanced and erudite manner in each case. Debates within the participants in these projects are also focused. The book ends with a defense of liberal democracy, exploring departures from it in contemporary Hungary and Poland, but also the US"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAnarchism$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocialism$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFascism$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCommunism$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDemocracy$zEurope$y20th century 606 $aCollectivism$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aEurope$xPolitics and government$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAnarchism, Communism, Democracy, Fascism, Illiberalism, Liberalism, Nazism, Political theory. 615 0$aAnarchism$xHistory 615 0$aSocialism$xHistory 615 0$aFascism$xHistory 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aCollectivism$xHistory 676 $a320.53094 700 $aRamet$b Sabrina P.$f1949-$0472014 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793828003321 996 $aAlternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century$93755562 997 $aUNINA