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THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
Crisis of the capitalist system
Manifested in Europe
By post-war difficulties
In the recession that started in 1929
The Soviet Union
Wasn't so affected
Had a different economic system
As a result
Of Soviet prestige
Of the unemployment and misery
Generated by the capitalist crisis
Trade unions and communist parties
Became stronger
Great political instability
Caused by workers’ demands
Dictatorships
Members of the wealthy and middle classes
Afraid of the Soviet example
Started supporting dictatorial models
Rejected the existence
Of workers’ organisations
Predominated over democracies
In Europe
Totalitarian regimes
Common characteristics
Dictatorship
The absence of
Individual freedoms
Information
Exaltation of the dictator
A personality cult
All-embracing state
Power that controlled
All facets of citizens’ lives
Official state ideology
Single mass party
Represented the official ideology
Mobilisation of the masses
In support of that ideology
Repression
Of any idea or activity
That differs from or questions
The power of the state
The party
Its official ideology
System of terror and violence
Powerful political police force
To ensure critics are repressed
Great Britain and France
France
Had to form
A leftist unity government
The Popular Front
To contain the rise
Of the extreme right
Great Britain
Overcame its economic problems
Thanks to the strength
Of its political institutions
Managed to preserve
Democracy
