Theories of Totalitarianism and Modern Dictatorships: A Tentative Approaches  

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Meuschel, Sigrid

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Thesis Eleven vol. 61 no. 1 (Mei 2000), page 87–98.
Topik: exterminism; bureaucracy; national socialism; Stalinism; totalitarianism
Fulltext: 87TE611.pdf (52.61KB)

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This essay discusses totalitarian theories with regard to their capacity to interpret in a normatively plausible way such different dictatorships as Nazism, Stalinism and post-Stalinism. In contrast to theoretical approaches which subsume all these regimes under a single concept (totalitarianism as total control), it argues in favor of discerning terror and ideology as main characteristics (totalitarianism as extermination). The focus on National Socialism and Stalinism needs further differentiation. Theories of bureaucratic structures and charismatic domination may help in distinguishing both regimes' very particularities; at the same time, however, they seem to fail relevant aspects of historical reality.

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