Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions
About the Book Series
This innovative book series will scrutinise all attempts to totally refashion mankind and society, whether these hailed from the Left or the Right, which, unusually, will receive equal consideration. Although its primary focus will be on the authoritarian and totalitarian politics of the twentieth century, the series will also provide a forum for the wider discussion of the politics of faith and salvation in general, together with an examination of their inexorably catastrophic consequences.
There are no chronological or geographical limitations to the books that may be included, and the series will include reprints of classic works and translations, as well as monographs and collections of essays.
The French and Italian Communist Parties: Comrades and Culture
1st Edition
By Cyrille Guiat
February 04, 2019
Beginning with a review of the numerous studies that tend to emphasize the national, societal dimension of the Italian and French communist parties, Cyrille Guiat's book is a comparative study of the two parties from the early 1960s to the early 1980s....
Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Feldman, Marius Turda, Tudor Georgescu
August 12, 2014
This edited volume arose from an international workshop convened in 2006 by Feldman and Turda with Tudor Georgescu, supported by Routledge, and the universities of Oxford, Brookes, Northampton and CEU (Budapest). As the field of fascist studies continues to integrate more fully into pan-European ...
Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics: Reckoning with the Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Anatoly M. Khazanov, Stanley Payne
December 11, 2013
These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization and the different ways in which collective ...
Totalitarianism and Political Religions Volume III: Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships - Theory & History of Interpretations
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans Maier
April 17, 2012
Available for the first time in English language translation, the third volume of Totalitarianism and Political Religions completes the set. It provides a comprehensive overview of key theories and theorists of totalitarianism and of political religions, from Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron to Leo ...
Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume II: Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans Maier, Michael Schäfer
April 17, 2012
Available for the first time in English language translation, this is the long-awaited second volume of the three part set on Totalitarianism and Political Religions, edited by the eminent Professor Hans Maier. This represents a major study, with contributions from leading scholars of political ...
Charisma and Fascism
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonio Costa Pinto, Roger Eatwell, Stein Ugelvik Larsen
March 13, 2007
Fascism remains a topic that fascinates both academic and general audiences. This is the first book to look systematically at the leaders of fascism and related movements in the inter-war era. It shows how fascist leaders came to personify their movements and why the ...
Fascism, Totalitarianism and Political Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Griffin
February 02, 2006
9/11 and its aftermath demonstrate the urgent need for political scientists and historians to unravel the tangled relationship of secular ideologies and organized religions to political fanaticism. This major new volume uses a series of case studies by world experts to further our understanding of...
Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium
1st Edition
By John L. H. Keep, Alter L. Litvin
January 21, 2005
Stalinism surveys the efforts made in recent years by professional historians, in Russia and the West, to better understand what really went on in the USSR between 1929 and 1953, when the country's affairs were shrouded in secrecy. The opening of the Soviet archives in 1991 has led to a profusion ...
Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1: Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans Maier
January 07, 2005
We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a ...
Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Uriel Tal
July 15, 2004
In a perceptive analysis of diverse source material, the essays of the late Uriel Tal in this volume uncover the dynamics of the secularization of religion, and the sacralization of politics in the Nazi era. Through a process of inversion of meaning, concepts such as race, blood, soil, state, ...
The Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Helmut Dubiel, Gabriel Motzkin
June 15, 2004
This book comprises 14 essays by scholars who disagree about the methods and purposes of comparing Nazism and Communism. The central idea is that if these two different memories of evil were to develop in isolation, their competition for significance would distort the real evils both movements ...
Redefining Stalinism
1st Edition
Edited
By Harold Shukman
August 30, 2003
Born in 1879 in Georgia, Stalin joined the Bolsheviks under Lenin in 1903 and became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922. These edited papers reassess the deeds, policies and legacy of a man who was responsible for innumerable deaths and untold human misery....