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"Control of opposition was the most important method used to maintain…
"Control of opposition was the most important method used to maintain power in Authoritarian States" Discuss with reference to two authoritarian states
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Similarities
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Both encouraged people to dob their neighbours/parents/siblings/friends in if they suspected they were opposed to the regimes
Differences
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Castro's regime came to the point of 250,000 people leaving out of protest
THESIS:
This statement is true to a large extent as although other factors were important in maintaining control in an authoritarian state, control of opposition ensured that the majority of people were still inclined to agree with the ideology, policies and leaders in place in the authoritarian state. Castro and Hitler are two examples of Authoritarian leaders who used force to control their opposition in order to elongate their maintenance of power
HISTORIOGRAPHY
"Your son or your father or your wife or your cousin or your best friend or your boss or your secretary might be an informer for Heydrich's organisation;... if you were wise nothing was every taken for granted."
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describes the activities of the SS, suggesting the SS was feared at least as much as the Gestapo
"it exposes the extent to which (German society) perceived repression not as a smouldering blanket of regime terror, but as something necessary or even desirable in itself"
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