Totalistic organizations : from Mafia to global terror / A. Korchak ; translated by Vera Korchak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Korchak, Alexander.

Series:

Social science monographs.

Social science monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Totalitarianism.

Ideology.

Physical Description:

xvii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Alexander Korchak compares the organizational and functional structure of four types of totalistic organizations that pose the greatest danger to democratic society: mafias, terrorist groups, religious cults, and mature autonomous bureaucracies. The author shows how mafias penetrate the other three types of totalistic organizations and how such organizations converge in modern democratic societies. One example of such convergence is the use by criminal cults of a religious ideology (Aum Shinrikyo); another is the link between totalitarian organizations and totalitarian regimes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0880339942

OCLC:

50176582