Twentieth-Century Dictatorships The Ideological One-Party States [Hardcover]

This book presents an analysis and description of the twentieth-century form of dictatorship, the ideological one-party state, largely through sixteen case-studies of notable or representative examples. Part One presents examples of the party type (the party-state regime), Part Two examples of the military type (the military-party regime) and Part Three examples of transformations from one type to the other. These case-studies are drawn from fascist, communist, and Third World examples and from the 1920s to the 1980s.Introduction - The Twentieth-Century Dictatorships' Challenge to Democracy - Analyzing the Ideological One-Party States: Components, Leadership, and Types - PART 1: THE PARTY-STATE TYPE - The Fascist Examples - The Communist Regime in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1945 - A Survey of the Communist Regimes from the 1940s to 1980s - Third World Case-Studies - PART 2: THE MILITARY-PARTY TYPE - The Quasi-Fascist Examples - Third World Socialist Case-Studies - Third World 'Multi-Party' Case-Studies - PART 3: TRANSFORMATIONS FROM ONE TYPE TO ANOTHER - From Party-State to Military-Party Regime - From Military-Party to Party-State Regime - From Party-State to Military-Party to Democratic Regime: Turkey since 1908 - Conclusion - Notes and References - Bibliography - IndexPaul Brooker