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03 THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM - Coggle Diagram
03 THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
Parliamentary democracies were deteriorated in the 1920s
crisis of the capitalist system
post-war difficulties (1919–1923)
Great Depression of 1929
USSR was not so affected
Soviet prestige
trade unions and communist parties became stronger
Members of the wealthy and middle classes
were afraid of the Soviet example
started supporting dictatorial models
rejected the existence of workers’ organisations
At the end of the 1930s
dictatorships in Europe predominated over democracies
totalitarian regimes
dictatorship
absence of individual freedoms and information
exaltation of the dictator
all-embracing state
controlled all facets of citizens’ lives
official state ideology
a single mass party
official ideology
mobilisation of the masses
repression of any idea against the regime
system of terror and violence
powerful political police force to repress critics
Except for
Great Britain
overcame its economic problems thanks to the strength of its political institutions
managed to preserve democracy
France
had to form leftist unity government
the Popular Front
to stop the raise of the extreme right
Enlightenment values broke down
human reason, science and progress
