Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1
Subtitle: Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships (Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780714685298
Subjects: Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Government - Comparative; Political Science / International Relations; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; International Relations - General
First sentence: Since the 1930s, the concept of totalitarian rule that regards it as a specifically modern phenomenon of state and social existence has played a significant, at times even predominate, role in the self-understanding of the Western democracies.