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THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
Different factors eroded parliamentary democracies
1920
crisis of the capitalist system
Soviet Union
not so affected by
Great Depression
had a different economic system
Trade Union and communist parties became stonger
Soviet prestige
unemployment and misery
generated by the capitalist crisis
great political instability in many countries
workers demands
Members of the wealthy and middle classes
afraid of Soviet example
started to support
dictatorial models
end of 1930
dictatorship in Europe
predominated over democracy
some dictator were totalitarian regimes
all-embracing state
controlled all citizens
official state ideology
exaltation of the dictator
ideologies
mobilisation of the masses
single mass party
dictatorship
repression
system of terror and violence
Facing the rise of dictatorship
Great Britain
overcame its economic problems
France
form a leftist unity government
