Everyday life in mass dictatorship : collusion and evasion / edited by Alf Lüdtke, Honorarprofessor Historische Anthropologie, Universität Erfurt, Germany.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lüdtke, Alf, 1943-2019, contributing editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Mass dictatorship in the 20th century

Mass dictatorship in the twentieth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Totalitarianism--History--20th century.

Totalitarianism.

Dictatorship--History--20th century.

Dictatorship.

Political psychology--History--20th century.

Political psychology.

Post-communism--History--20th century.

Post-communism.

Social history--20th century.

Social history.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 260 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Dictatorship implies oppression and arbitrary violence from above. However, this volume, and the Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century series to which it contributes dismantles that general assumption. Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship explores the multiple forms and practices of ordinary people as they became active participants in the grand mobilisation of society not only promised, but actively pursued by dictatorial regimes in the 20th century. The volume is centrally concerned with two aspects of collusion and evasion: warfare and ruthless policies of exclusion. This volume is concerned with people's multiple ways of collusion with and evasion of both violence and traces of better living as they characterise mass dictatorship of the 20th century. The first part focuses on the classical cases of Stalinism, fascism, Nazism and Japanese imperialism. The second part concentrates on postcolonial states. The extent to which they carried on non-democratic asymmetries of power or established them anew is breathtaking. Yet the prospects of better living and 'modern times' met with overwhelming popular support in the East and West, as well as in the global North and South. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introductory notes / Alf Lüdtke

Ordinary people, self-energising, and room for manoeuvering: examples from 20th century European dictatorships / Alf Lüdtke

The Third Reich: police state or self-policing society? / Peter Lambert

Self-reassurance in troubled times: German diaries during the upheavals of 1933 / Michael Wildt

Collaboration, complicity, and evasion under Italian fascism / Paul Corner

Stalinism 'from below'? : Soviet state, society, and the Great Terror / Kevin McDermott

The politics of national language and wartime mobilisation of everyday life in late colonial Korea, 1937-1945 / Kyu Hyun Kim

Industrial warriors: labour heroes and everyday life in wartime colonial Korea, 1937-1945 / Michael Kim

Consumption and consumerism in the German Democratic Republic / Harald Dehne

North Korea and the education of desire: totalitarianism, everyday life, and the making of post-colonial subjectivity / Charles K. Armstrong

Comrade Min, women's paid labour, and the centralising party-state: postwar reconstruction in North Korea / Andre Schmid

Between autonomy and productivity: the everyday lives of Korean women workers during the Park Chung-hee Era / Won Kim

Conscription, collaboration, and self-cutting in rural Senegal during and after World War II / Dennis Galvan

The Convention People's Party (CPP) in Ghana, late 1950s to the 1970s : mobilisation for transformation / Richard Rathbone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781137442772

1137442778

Publisher Number:

99986647807

40025574632

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