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041			_aeng
082			_a320.973 _bWEY
100			_aWeyland, Kurt
245		0	_aAssault on democracy _cKurt Weyland _bCommunism, fascism and authoritarianism during the interwar years
260			_c2021 _aNew Delhi _bCambridge University Press
300			_axi, 385 p. _c22 cm.
504			_aBib and Ref
520			_aThe interwar years saw the greatest reversal of political liberalization and democratization in modern history. Why and how did dictatorship proliferate throughout Europe and Latin America in the 1920s and 1930s? Blending perspectives from history, comparative politics, and cognitive psychology, Kurt Weyland argues that the Russian Revolution sparked powerful elite groupings that, fearing communism, aimed to suppress imitation attempts inspired by Lenin's success. Fears of Communism fueled doubts about the defensive capacity of liberal democracy, strengthened the ideological right, and prompted the rise of fascism in many countries. Yet, as fascist movements spread, their extremity and violence also sparked conservative backlash that often blocked their seizure of power. Weyland teases out the differences across countries, tracing how the resulting conflicts led to the imposition of fascist totalitarianism in Italy and Germany and the installation of conservative authoritarianism in Eastern and Southern Europe and Latin America.
650			_aPolitics, Social Theory, History Of Ideas
942			_cENGLISH
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