1st Edition
The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics
By David Roberts
Copyright 2006
591 Pages
by
Routledge
592 Pages
by
Routledge
591 Pages
by
Routledge
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By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of ‘totalitarianism’, the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. The book’s original analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject sheds light on the common origins and practices of the regimes.
Through this fresh appreciation of their... Read more
1. Layers, Proportions, and the Question of Historical Specificity 2.Seams, Creases, and the Emergence of New Conditions of Possibility in the Nineteenth Century 3.Some Diagnoses and Prescriptions 4. Innovative Departures in the Wake of the Great War 5. The Totalitarian Dynamics of Leninism-Stalinism 6.Conflicted Totalitarianism in Fascist Italy 7. Conflicted Totalitarianism in Fascist Italy 7. The Hollow Triumph of the Will in Nazi Germany 8. The Epochal Commonality of the Three Regimes9. Ending and Continuing after the Totalitarian Moment
Biography
David D. Roberts is Albert Berry Saye Professor of History at the University of Georgia. Among his numerous publications are The Syndicalist Tradition and Italian Fascism (1979), Benedetto Croce and the Uses of Historicism (1987) and Nothing But History: Reconstruction and Extremity after Metaphysics (1995).
