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THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM - Coggle Diagram
THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
Different factors eroded parliamentary democracies
main one
crisis of the capitalist system
manifested
in Europe both by post-war difficulties (1919–1923)
in the recession that started in 1929
Soviet Union not affected by Great Depression
As a result of
Soviet prestige
unemployment
misery generated by the capitalist crisis
became stronger
trade unions
communist parties
afraid of the Soviet example
Members of the wealthy and middle classes
supporting dictatorial models
rejected workers’ organisations
end of the 1930s
dictatorships in Europe predominated over democracies
dictatorships were totalitarian regimes
dictatorship
exaltation of the dictator
all-embracing state
official state ideology
single mass party
mobilisation of the masses
repression