Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/0auDPb The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics By: David Roberts Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415192781, 0415192781 eText ISBN: 9781134651177, 1134651171 Edition: 1st Pages: 592 Copyright year: 2006 Format: EPUB Available from $ 18.78 USD SKU 9781134651177R90 By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of ‘totalitarianism’, the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. The book’s original analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject sheds light on the common origins and practices of the regimes. Through this fresh appreciation of their initial frame of mind, Roberts demonstrates how the three political experiments yielded unprecedented collective mobilization but also a characteristic combination of radicalization, myth-making, and failure. Providing deep historical analysis, the book proves that 'totalitarianism' best characterizes the common features in the originating aspirations, the mode of action and even the outcomes of Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. By enhancing our knowledge of what ‘totalitarianism’ was and where it came from, Roberts affords important lessons about the ongoing challenges, possibilities, and dangers of the modern political experiment. Additional ISBNs 9781280414206, 9780415192798, 1280414200, 041519279X
