Books in the Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions series

Looks at the leaders of fascism and related movements in the inter-war era. This book shows how fascist leaders came to personify their movements and why the "Fuhreprinzip" was applied in all fascist organizations. It also explains how fascist leadership was of a very particular kind.

This volume, first published in 1984, contains the principal papers from a colloquium held in 1982. Its avowed purpose is to investigate further the notion of "totalitarian democracy" and to look at its repercussions in the contemporary world.

This groundbreaking volume explores the relationship between various Christian confessions, such as Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and national fascist movements across interwar Europe.

The third volume of Totalitarianism and Political Religions provides a comprehensive overview of key theories and theorists of totalitarianism and of political religions from Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron to Leo Strauss and Simone Weill.

Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume II, available for the first time in English translation, features contributions from leading scholars of political extremism, sociology and modern history. Based upon a seminal conference on political religions, edited by eminent Professor Hans Maier, the book seeks to define the term and explore its application to the interpretation of a wide variety of totalitarian movements in Europe in the twentieth century.

The essays that comprise this study of 20th-century fascism shift the focus away from the German and Italian models and towards the influence of fascist ideology within other countries.

The essays that comprise this study of 20th-century fascism shift the focus away from the German and Italian models and towards the influence of fascist ideology within other countries.

This book shows how new models by which to understand political history arose from the experience of modern despotic regimes. Here, the totalitarianism and political religions - are discussed and tested in terms of their usefulness.

Provides the scholarship from a variety of perspectives on the structure, ideology and political history of the central fascist group in interwar and Second World War Yugoslavia, the Croatian Ustasha. This volume in English explores the Ustasha's Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945.

A resource for scholars of fascism, Nazism, communism, totalitarianism, comparative politics and political theory. It presents an overview of key theories and theorists of totalitarianism and of political religions, from Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron to Leo Strauss and Simone Weill. It brings together the research undertaken during 1992-2002.

We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the twentieth century - Communism, Fascism, Maoism - precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? This volume shows how models for understanding political history arose from the experience of modern despotic regimes.

This groundbreaking volume explores the relationship between various Christian confessions, such as Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and national fascist movements across interwar Europe.

This book shows how new models by which to understand political history arose from the experience of modern despotic regimes. Here, the totalitarianism and political religions - are discussed and tested in terms of their usefulness.

In this volume a number of international experts on individual variants of fascism explore the link between a particular totalitarian movement or regime and the concrete historical phenomena it produced.

Looks at the leaders of fascism and related movements in the inter-war era. This book shows how fascist leaders came to personify their movements and why the "Fuhreprinzip" was applied in various fascist organizations. It also explains how fascist leadership was of a very particular kind.

The essays of the late Uriel Tal uncover the dynamics of the secularization of religion, and the sacralization of politics in the Nazi era, to render explicable the deep ideational structure of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

In this volume a number of international experts on individual variants of fascism explore the link between a particular totalitarian movement or regime and the concrete historical phenomena it produced.

In this book, scholars debate the evils of Nazism and Communism and explore methods and purposes of comparing the two.

This volume, the fruit of co operation between a British and Russian historian, seeks to review comparatively the progress made in recent years, largely thanks to the opening of the Russian archives, in enlarging our understanding of Stalin and

In this title, scholars debate the evils of Nazism and Communism and explore methods and purposes of comparing the two.

This volume is a systematic comparative study of the French and Italian Communist parties in the period from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

These edited papers reassess the deeds, policies and legacy of Stalin who was responsible for innumerable deaths and untold human misery.