1st Edition
The Proto-totalitarian State Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes
By Dmitry Shlapentokh
Copyright 2007
167 Pages
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Routledge
174 Pages
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Routledge
174 Pages
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Routledge
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Totalitarian rule is commonly thought to derive from spe- cific ideologies that justify the complete control by the state of social, cultural, and political institutions. The major goal of this volume is to demonstrate that in some cases brutal forms of state control have been the only way to maintain basic social order. Dmitry Shlapentokh seeks to show that totalitarian or semi-totalitarian... Read more
1: Asocial Processes in the Context of Early Modern European History; 2: The Proliferation of Asocial Processes and the Problem of Control; 3: The Proliferation and Brutalization of Repression: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; 4: The Apparatus of Repression and Control; 5: Education and Reeducation of the People: Execution as Actor, Teacher, and Priest; 6: Dealing with Vagabonds: Repression and Social Engineering; 7: The Result of the Repression
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Dmitry Shlapentokh
