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Assault on Democracy

Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism During the Interwar Years

Av Kurt Weyland

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The 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.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-02-04
  • Mått: 160 x 235 x 30 mm
  • Vikt: 740 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 398
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108844338
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Kurt Weyland is Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts in the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of five other books and approximately 50 journal articles and book chapters. His book, Making Waves (Cambridge University Press, 2014) won Best Book Award for APSA's Comparative Democratization section.

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'With this landmark volume, Kurt Weyland advances a new interpretation of the 'authoritarian wave' of the 1920s and 1930s that places front and center national political elites and their response to the dramatic international events of the time. By combining theories in behavioral psychology with an impressive breadth of historical knowledge, Assault on Democracy challenges established views on these pivotal decades for the history of democracy. Weyland's agenda-setting study will influence scholarly debates on democratization and political development for many years to come.' Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford

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