HISTORICAL COLLAGE: NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY - ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY

This parallel ingression into the historical development of the German national socialist and the Romanian communist parties attempts to trace, using a comparative approach, the series of stages in their accession to power as well as the context and sequence of events that ultimately allowed these p...

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Published in:Research and science today 2014-03, Vol.1 (7), p.14
Main Author: Sasu, Laura
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aggression
Bans
Communism
Context
Election results
Elections
German language
Inclination
Metamorphosis
Nazi era
Political parties
Politics
Presidential elections
Propaganda
Socialism
Violence
Workers
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Summary:This parallel ingression into the historical development of the German national socialist and the Romanian communist parties attempts to trace, using a comparative approach, the series of stages in their accession to power as well as the context and sequence of events that ultimately allowed these parties to become totalitarian regimes in 20th century Europe. The contrastive method allows the emphasis of both converging points and divergent aspects of the incipient paths towards totalitarian power. The common traits include a poor initial representatives, inclination to violence, disregard for legality, opportunistic speculation of the historical context, use of compromise for attaining key positions of governments that are to organise new elections, pre-electoral combat of political opponents in questionable ways and eventually accession to and monopolizing power by metamorphosis into a state-party. Yet, the essential difference consists in the de facto legitimacy of the German national socialism in stark contrast to the purely formal, fabricated legitimacy of Romanian communism, that was impelled by soviet support and by obviously illicit means.
ISSN:2247-4455
2285-9632