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David Roberts has published widely on Italian fascism and more recently a significant comparative study of totalitarianism in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. The short essay published here is a useful compression of the arguments presented in the longer work. Unfortunatel...

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Published in:Contemporary European history 2009-11, Vol.18 (4), p.415-418
Main Author: LEVY, CARL
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bolshevism
Capital punishment
European history
Fascism
Interpretations
Judaism
Liberalism
Marxism
Nazi groups
Nazism
Philosophy
Political ideologies
Politics
Religion
Religion & politics
Secularism
Stalinism
Studies
Totalitarianism
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Summary:David Roberts has published widely on Italian fascism and more recently a significant comparative study of totalitarianism in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. The short essay published here is a useful compression of the arguments presented in the longer work. Unfortunately, this piece represents all that is problematic and frustrating in totalitarian/political religion studies. Roberts gives us a useful review of the growth and evolution of totalitarianism and political religion from the inter-war period through the Cold War until we reach the sunny postmodern uplands of the cultural turn. A review of the arguments of Gentile, Griffin, Morgan, Kershaw, Eatwell, Payne, Burrin and Voegelin is helpful to the reader who is unfamiliar with a series of complex arguments, which straddle decades.
ISSN:0960-7773
1469-2171
DOI:10.1017/S0960777309990075