Twentieth-Century Dictatorships

by Brooker, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780814712337
• ISBN10: 0814712339
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

Mussolini in Italy. Hitler in Germany. Franco in Spain. These men, and their style of government, both individually and collectively, have had a profound and lasting effect on global politics in this century.Equipped with an official ideology and a charismatic leader, dictatorship contested democracy throughout the twentieth century, first in the form of fascist, and later communist and military, regimes. Examining their origins, evolution, and political and social roles, Paul Brooker here provides a sweeping canvas of dictatorships in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. By distinguishing between the different manifestations of dictatorship--from the mass-murdering reign of Hitler to the benevolent dictatorships of such figures as Crdenas in Mexico and Atatrk in Turkey, this work presents a clear and comprehensive overview of this often violent, sometimes paternalistic, always fascinating form of government.

Author Biography

Paul Brooker is Lecturer in Politics at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Twentieth-Century Dictatorships' Challenge to Democracy	p. 5
The Modernity of the New Form of Dictatorship	p. 6
The Variety and Political Creativity of the Twentieth-Century Dictatorships	p. 8
The Failure of the Challenge to Democracy: The Personalist Flaw	p. 9
Analyzing the Ideological One-Party States: Components, Leadership and Types	p. 14
Components	p. 14
Individual/Collective Leadership and Personal Dictatorship	p. 17
The Party-State and Military-Party Types	p. 19
The Fascist Examples	p. 23
Mussolini's Regime in Italy	p. 23
Hitler's Regime in Germany	p. 36
The Communist Regime in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1945	p. 51
Communist Ideology	p. 52
The Communist Party	p. 57
Lenin's Leadership of the Regime	p. 66
Stalin's Rise to Personal Rule	p. 68
The Party under Stalin's Leadership and then Personal Rule	p. 77
A Survey of the Communist Regimes from the 1940s to 1980s	p. 82
The Soviet Union after Stalin	p. 82
The East European Communist Regimes	p. 85
Communism in Asia: China, Vietnam and North Korea	p. 91
Third World Case Studies	p. 99
Nkrumah's Ghana	p. 99
Toure's Guinea	p. 112
The Quasi-Fascist Examples	p. 129
Primo de Rivera's Regime in Spain	p. 129
Franco's Regime in Spain	p. 138
Third World Socialist Case Studies	p. 148
Nasser's Egypt	p. 148
Ne Win's Burma	p. 158
Third World 'Multi-Party' Case Studies	p. 170
Peron's Argentina	p. 170
Suharto's Indonesia	p. 181
From Party-State to Military-Party Regime	p. 197
Kuomintang China	p. 197
Communist Poland	p. 210
From Military-Party to Party-State Regime	p. 217
Post-Revolution Mexico	p. 217
Castro's Cuba	p. 231
From Party-State to Military-Party to Democratic Regime: Turkey since 1908	p. 239
The Party-State Regime of the Committee of Union and Progress	p. 240
The Shift to a Military-Party Regime under Kemal	p. 242
From Personal Rule to Democracy	p. 250
Conclusion	p. 254
Notes and References	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 294
Index	p. 302
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