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  title info:
    title: Totalitarianism
    sub title: the inner history of the Cold War
  name:
    name part: Gleason, Abbott
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: VerfasserIn
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    place:
      place term: XD-US
    place:
      place term: XA-GB
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    internet media type: pdf/application
    extent: 307 S 25 cm
  abstract: Publisher description: Providing a fascinating account of totalitarianism, historian Abott Gleason offers a penetrating chronicle of the central concept of our era--an era shaped first by our conflict with fascism and then by our conflict with communism. Interweaving the story of intellectual debates with the international history of the twentieth century, Gleason traces the birth of the term to Italy in the first years of Mussolini's rule. He follows the growth and expansion of the concept as it was picked up in the West and applied to Hitler's Germany and the Soviet Union. Gleason's account takes us through the debates of the early postwar years, as academics adopted the term, notably Hannah Arendt. The concept fully entered the public consciousness with the opening of the Cold War, as Truman used the rhetoric of totalitarianism to sell the Truman Doctrine to Congress. As he takes his account through to the 1990s, Gleason offers an inner history of the Cold War, revealing the political charge the term carried for writers on both the left and the right. He also explores the intellectual struggles that swirled around the idea in France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. When the Cold War drew to a close in the late 1980s, Gleason writes, the concept lost much of its importance in the West even as it flourished in Russia, where writers began to describe their own collapsing state as totalitarian
  table of contents: Fascist origins -- New kind of state: Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s -- Wartime in the English-speaking world -- Cold War -- Brainwashing: Communist China as a totalitarian state -- Searching for the origins of totalitarianism -- "Totalitarianism" among the Sovietologists -- Cold War in postwar Europe: France, Italy, and Germany -- Cold War in eastern Europe -- "Evil Empire" -- Russians call themselves totalitarian.
  note: Abbott Gleason
  note: Includes bibliogr. (p. 217 - 295) and index
  subject:
    topic: World politics
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Totalitarianism
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
  classification: D445
  classification: 320.904
  classification: 320.9/04
  classification: 3,6 7,26
  classification: 89.36
  classification: 89.10
  classification: 15.20
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    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 940408
    record change date: 20220425140637.0
    record identifier: 148416101
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger