Assault on democracy : communism, fascism, and authoritarianism during the interwar years / Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin.
"Why did democratic progress stop during the interwar years and fascism and authoritarianism spread across Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe? The Russian Revolution triggered this reverse wave by inspiring left-wingers in many countries to try to replicate Lenin's success. But these pr...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- The puzzle: reverse waves of political reaction
- Theory: the double deterrent effect and the bounds of rationality
- The Soviet precedent and the wave of isomorphic emulation efforts
- The suppression of isomorphic emulation efforts and its limited regime effects
- Persistence of the communist threat and rising appeal of fascism
- The German exception: emulating full-scale fascism
- The spread of fascist movements
- yet of authoritarian regimes
- Conservative-fascist relations and the autocratic reverse wave
- The edges of the autocratic wave: battered democracy and populist authoritarianism.