War and revolution
Subtitle: the origins and dynamics of the fascist and nationalist socialist dictatorships
By: MacGregor Knox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521878609; 9780521703291
Subjects: Totalitarianism; Fascism -- Italy -- History; National socialism -- Germany -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; title: Preface; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction: Dictatorship in the age of mass politics; title: Book I: The Long Nineteenth Century, 1789--1914; title: Part 1. Latecomers; title: 1. Peculiarities of the old order; title: 2. Revolutions from above, 1789--1871: Politics, society, myths; title: Part 2. Italy and Germany as nation-states, 1871--1914; title: 1. Economic expansion, social ambition; title: 2. The politics of stunted parliamentarism; title: 3. The instruments of war; title: 4. The national myths; title: 5. Fateful peculiarities: The view from 1914; title: Book II: From War to Dictatorship, 1914--1933; title: Part 3. The synthesis of violence and politics, 1914--18; title: 1. The meaning of the war: The inner circle from euphoria to resentment; title: 2. The meaning of the war: "August Days" and "Radiant May"; title: 3. The meaning of the war: Fragmentation, defeat, denial, wrath; title: 4. Structural transformations and the end of all legitimacy; title: Part 4. Kampfzeit: The Road to Radical Nationalist Victory, 1919--33; title: 1. Post-War Italy and Weimar Germany: Structures and forces; title: 2. The Perpetuation of the War: Ideas and Institutions; title: 3. "Without armistice or quarter": Fascism and National Socialism; title: 4. To Rome and Berlin, 1921--22 ? 1931--33; title: 5. ... Out of the National Pasts; title: Conclusion: ... Into the Radical National Future: Inheritances and Prospects; title: of the New Regimes; title: Frequently cited works PRIVATE; title: Notes