Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War

by Abbott Gleason

Book Overview

For more than six decades, the term "totalitarian" was applied to everything from Franco's Spain to Stalin's Soviet Union. One of the most enigmatic and yet compelling ideas of our time, it has been both an almost meaningless political catcall and an indispensable concept for understanding the dictatorships that have marred the history of this century. Now historian Abbott Gleason provides a fascinating account of the life of this idea.
Totalitarianism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195050177
• ISBN13: 9780195050172
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"