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THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
Crisis of the Capitalist System
post-war difficulties
the 1929 recession
1920: parliamentary democracies eroded
Soviet Union wasn't affected
different economic system
political instability
caused by workers’ demands
stronger trade unions and communist parties
Afraid of Soviet example
rejected workers’ organisations
end of the 1930s
many dictatorships in Europe
supported dictatorial models
Characteristics of Totalitarian Regimes
official state ideology
single mass party
represented mobilisation of the masses
all-embracing state
controlled citizens’ lives
repression
of ideas that are different to the party
exaltation of the dictator
personality cult
system of terror and violence
political police
dictatorship
no individual freedoms
democracies
France
Popular Front
contain rise of extreme right
Great Britain
overcame its economic problems
preserve democracy
The Crisis Of The Idea Of Progress
Enlightenment broke down
science
progress
human reason
The Great War
popularised by intellectuals and artists
great technological, scientific and organisational progress
used to kill and destroy
human catastrophe
Intellectual factors
loss of confidence
decline of parliamentary democracies
