Totalitarian dictatorship and autocracy / Carl J. Friedrich and Zbigniew K. Brzezinski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedrich, Carl J., author.

Brzezinski, Zbigniew K., author.

Contributor:

Friedrich, Carl J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Totalitarianism.

Dictatorships--History.

Dictatorships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 439 pages.)

Edition:

Second edition, revised.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy".

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD TO THE REVISED EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

CONTENTS

I Introduction

1. AUTOCRACY AND THE PROBLEM OF THE STATE

2. THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP

II Dictator and Party

3 THE DICTATOR

4 THE NATURE AND ROLE OF THE PARTY

5 YOUTH AND THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY

6 THE PROBLEM OF SUCCESSION

III The Totalitarian Ideology

7 THE NATURE OF TOTAL IDEOLOGY: ITS SYMBOLS AND MYTHS

8 THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY

9 THE CHANGE AND CORRUPTION OF IDEOLOGY

10 THE CONSTITUTION, THE LAW, AND JUSTICE

IV Propaganda and the Terror

11 PROPAGANDA AND THE MONOPOLY OF COMMUNICATIONS

12 EDUCATION AS INDOCTRINATION AND TRAINING

13 THE TERROR AND THE PASSION FOR UNANIMITY

14 THE SECRET POLICE AND THE PEOPLE'S ENEMIES

15 PURGES, CONFESSIONS, AND CAMPS

V The Directed Economy

16 TOTALITARIAN BUREAUCRATIZATION

17 PLANS AND PLANNING

18 THE BATTLE FOR PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION

19 LABOR: BOND OR FREE?

20 AGRICULTURE: ORGANIZING THE PEASANTRY

VI Islands of Separateness

21 THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF RESISTANCE

22 THE FAMILY

23 THE CHURCHES

24 THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE TECHNICIANS

25 LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

VII Totalitarian Expansionism and the Future

26 THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT

27 THE FOREIGN POLICY OF EXPANSION

28 THE STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUTURE

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

INDEX OF AUTHORS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

First published in 1965; this ebook reprint published in 2014.

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ISBN:

9780674332607 (electronic book)

OCLC:

979904535