Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes

Fascism, Nazism, Communism
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-956652-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Fascism, Nazism, and Communism dominated the history of much of the twentieth century, yet comparatively little attention has focused on popular reactions to the regimes that sprang from these ideologies. Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes is the first volume to investigate popular reactions to totalitarian rule in the Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the communist regimes in Poland and East Germany after 1945.

The contributions, written for this volume by internationally acknowledged experts in their fields, move beyond the rather static vision provided by traditional themes of consent and coercion to construct a more nuanced picture of everyday life in the various regimes. The book provides many new insights into the ways totalitarian regimes functioned and the reasons for their decline, encouraging comparisons between the different regimes and stimulating re-evaluation of long-established positions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corner, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Notes on Contributors

- 1: Paul Corner: Introducton

- Part I: Two Overview

- 2: Sheila Fitzpatrick: Popular Opinion in Russia under Prewar Stalinism

- 3: Ian Kershaw: Consensus, Coercion and Popular Opinion in the Third Reich: Some Reflections

- Part II: The First Dictatorshipe

- 4: Jochen Hellbeck: Liberation from Autonomy: Mapping Self-understandings in Stalin's Time

- 5: Jan Plamper: Beyond Binaries: Popular Opinion in Stalinism

- 6: Otto Dov Kulka: 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: Jill Stephenson: Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany: Mobilisation, Experience, Perceptions. The View from the Württemberg Countryside

- 8: Paul Corner: Fascist Italy in the 1930s: Popular Opinion in the Provinces

- Part III: Dictatorship After 1945

- 9: Marcin Kula: Poland: The Silence of Those Deprived of Voice.

- 10: Martin Sabrow: Consent in the Communist GDR or How to Interpret Lion Feuchtwanger's Blindness in Moscow 1937

- 11: Mary Fulbrook: Demography, Opportunity, or Ideological Conversion? Reflections on the role of the 'second Hitler Youth generation', or '1929ers', in the GDR

- 12: Thomas Lindenberger: Tacit Minimal Consensus: the Always Precarious East German Dictatorship

- Select Bibliography

- Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Corner is Professor of European History at the University of Siena, having previously been a Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and Reader in Italian History at the University of Reading. His main interests are in Italian Fascism and the relationship between Fascism and other European dictatorial regimes both before and after the Second World War.