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THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
destruction of parliamentary democracies in the 1920s factors
crisis of the capitalist system
Europe by post-war difficulties (1919–1923), the recession in 1929
Soviet Union was not so affected by the Great Depression, as it had a different economic system.
Soviet prestige, unemployment, misery generated by the capitalist crisis, trade unions, communist parties was stronger
members of the wealthy and middle classes
supported dictatorial models
rejected the existence of workers’ organisations
afraid of the Soviet example
end of 1930: dictatorships in Europe predominated over democracies
consequences of the rise of dictatorships
Great Britain
overcame its economic problems (strength of its political institutions)
preserved democracy
France
to contain the rise of extreme right
form a leftist unity government-> Popular Front
dictatorships' common characteristics
official state ideology
all-embracing state, control all citizens’ lives
single mass party-> official ideology
repression of any idea or activity that questions their ideology
exaltation of the dictator, personality cult
system of terror and violence-> critics repressed
dictatorship, absence of individual freedoms and information
OIHANE TXARROALDE 4.E
