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European dictatorships : a comparative history of the twentieth century / by Gerhard Besier and Katarzyna Stokłosa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Besier, Gerhard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dictators--Europe.
- Dictators.
- Europe--Politics and government--20th century.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (693 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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...
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 30, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-5521-9
- OCLC:
- 868488983
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