Modernism and Totalitarianism: Rethinking the Intellectual Sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the Present

Shorten, R.

ISBN 10: 0230252079 / ISBN 13: 9780230252073

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modernism and Totalitarianism: Rethinking the Intellectual Sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the Present
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230252079
• ISBN 13: 9780230252073
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Modernism and Totalitarianism evaluates a broad range of post-1945 scholarship. Totalitarianism, as the common ideological trajectory of Nazism and Stalinism, is dissected as a synthesis of three modernist intellectual currents which determine its particular, inherited character.

About the Author

RICHARD SHORTEN teaches political theory at the University of Birmingham, UK. His work focuses on the history of political ideas, with particular reference to twentieth-century Europe. He has published widely on the subject of totalitarianism.