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

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.

Author: R. Shorten
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/15/2012
Pages: 321
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780230252073

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.