ISBN:
9780191571862
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (247 pages)
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DDC:
303.3/809409041
Keywords:
Totalitarianism--History--20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A team of internationally acknowledged experts examines the question of popular opinion in totalitarian regimes, looking at the ways in which ordinary people experienced everyday life in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy, with consideration also of Poland and East Germany between 1945 and 1989.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- PART 1. TWO OVERVIEWS -- 2. Popular Opinion in Russia Under Pre-war Stalinism -- 3. Consensus, Coercion and Popular Opinion in the Third Reich: Some Reflections -- PART 2. THE FIRST DICTATORSHIPS -- 4. Liberation from Autonomy: Mapping Self-Understandings in Stalin's Time -- 5. Beyond Binaries: Popular Opinion in Stalinism -- 6. Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany as a Factor in the Policy of the 'Solution of the Jewish Question': The Nuremberg Laws and the Reichskristallnacht -- 7. Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany: Mobilization, Experience, Perceptions: The View from the Württemberg Countryside -- 8. Fascist Italy in the 1930s: Popular Opinion in the Provinces -- PART 3. DICTATORSHIP AFTER 1945 -- 9. Poland: The Silence of Those Deprived of Voice -- 10. Consent in the Communist GDR or How to Interpret Lion Feuchtwanger's Blindness in Moscow 1937 -- 11. Demography, Opportunity or Ideological Conversion? Reflections on the Role of the 'Second Hitler Youth Generation', or '1929ers', in the GDR -- 12. Tacit Minimal Consensus: The Always Precarious East German Dictatorship -- Select Bibiliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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