a war in which the Old World nations had a vested interest. Pacifists, socialists, partisans of the various European camps, and America Firsters strongly opposed the New World's involvement in this conflagration. The resistance to America's involvement gave rise to a new class of political...
The Conformists; A dispassionate study suggests widespread complicity in the rise of totalitarianism.Reviewed by Peter Savodnik
The rise of totalitarianism, to some historians, was a logical process, but still has caused much discussion over the years. Many prominent dictators had fulfilled the yardsticks of totalitarianism to a large extent and one of these yardsticks is the use of propaganda. As for many of the yards...
the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism: The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and he rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it. ...
In the 1930s and 40s many theories were raised about some kind of connection between relativistic or nihilistic moral theories and the rise of totalitarianism in Europe. In Scandinavia these allegations were directed at the adherents of the value nihilistic theory of Axel Hgerstrm. This article ...
Around the time of World War II, just as the American state was acquiring new levels of capacity for autonomous action, the state was dropped from American social science, as part of the reaction to the rise of totalitarianism. All traces of state autonomy, now understood as "state coercion...
The Rise of Fascism and Totalitarianism Stalin’s Soviet Union Mussolini’s Italy Fascism in Spain Totalitarianism in Japan Fascist Germany Hitler and The “Master Race” Persecution of the Jewish people and Minorities Living Space The Rise of Dictators The panic and protest of the 1930s caused ma...
In the second part of this period individualism gave way to another trend, the trend toward state omnipotence. Men now seem eager to vest all powers in government, i.e. in the apparatus of social compulsion and coercion. They aim at totalitarianism, that is, condit...
(the idea that liberalism is an Anglo- American tradition concerned primarily with the protection of individual rights and interests is a very recent development in the history of liberalism. It is the product of the wars of the twentieth century and especially the fear of totalitarianism during ...
of the rise in the nineteenth century and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. The final section deals with the institutions, organizations, and operations of totalitarian movements and governments, focusing on the two genuine forms...