Everyday life in mass dictatorship : collusion and evasion Machine generated contents note: Contents 1. Introductory Notes; Alf Lüdtke 2. Ordinary People Self Energising and Room for Manoeuvering: Examples from 20th Century European Dictatorships; Alf Lüdtke 3. The Third Reich: Police State or Self Policing Society; Peter Lambert 4. Self Reassurance in Troubled Times: German Diaries During the Upheavals of 1933; Michael Wildt 5. Collaboration Complicity and Evasion Under Italian Fascism; Paul Corner 6. Stalinism From Below: Soviet State Society and the Great Terror; Kevin McDermott 7. The Politics of National Language and Wartime Mobilisation of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea 1937 1945; Kyu Hyun Kim 8. Industrial Warriors: Labour Heroes and Everyday Life in Wartime Colonial Korea 1937 1945; Michael Kim 9. Consumption and Consumerism in the German Democratic Republic; Harald Dehne 10. North Korea and the Education of Desire: Totalitarianism Everyday Life and the Making of Post Colonial Subjectivity; Charles K. Armstrong 11. Comrade Min Womens Paid Labour and the Centralising Party State: Postwar Reconstruction in North Korea; Andre Schmid 12. Between Autonomy and Productivity: the Everyday Lives of Korean Women Workers During the Park Chung hee Era; Won Kim 13. Conscription Collaboration and Self Cutting in Rural Senegal During and After World War II; Dennis Galvan 14. The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) in Ghana late 1950s to the 1970s: Mobilisation for Transformation; Richard Rathbone Dictatorship implies oppression and arbitrary violence from above. However this volume and the Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century series to which it contributes dismantles that general assumption. Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship explores the multiple forms and practices of ordinary people as they became active participants in the grand mobilisation of society not only promised but actively pursued by dictatorial regimes in the 20th century. The volume is centrally concerned with two aspects of collusion and evasion: warfare and ruthless policies of exclusion. The impact this avalanche of unbounded violence had on survivors and successive generations is the overarching theme of the studies presented in this volume on post colonial and post Stalinist dictatorships. The extent to which post colonial regimes carried on non democratic asymmetries of power or established them anew is breathtaking. Yet the prospects of better living and modern times met with overwhelming popular support in the East and West as well as in the global North and South