Paths to democracy : revolution and totalitarianism / Rosemary H.T. O'Kane.
This innovative volume provides a theoretically informed comparative investigation of the links between revolutions, totalitarianism and democracy.
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Democracy : method and theses
- On method : comparative historical analysis and politics
- Democracy and empirical political theory : from the present to the past
- Revolutions and ideas of democracy : from the past towards the present
- Revolution : chance for democracy
- Revolution and the long path to democracy in France
- Revolution and the failure of democracy in Russia and Germany
- Totalitarianism : antithesis of democracy
- The rise of totalitarian regimes : contrasting France
- Totalitarian regime : Nazi Germany
- Totalitarian regime : Stalin's Soviet Union
- Democracy as synthesis
- Federal Germany : re-tracing a path to democracy
- Communism and its collapse : East Germany and the Soviet Union
- Conclusion : lessons for democracy
- The struggle for modern democracy.