Authoritarian Regimes in the Long Twentieth Century

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Authoritarian Regimes in the Long Twentieth Century is written by Florian Kührer-Wielach and published by V&R unipress. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3737015023 (ISBN 10) and 9783737015028 (ISBN 13).

This special issue of the journal “zeitgeschichte” presents the results of the doctoral theses written within the framework of the “Doctoral College European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research” (2009–2012) as selected scholarly essays. The contributions are devoted to authoritarian regimes of the 20th century in Austria, Belarus, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and the Soviet Union. Using various methods from the humanities and social sciences, diff erent aspects of mainly “small” dictatorships are examined: conditions of emergence, structures, continuities, as well as preceding and subsequent processes of political and social transformation.