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the crisis of democracy and the rise of totalitarianism
parliamentary democracies in the 1920s
Different factors
The main one was the crisis of the capitalist system
post-war difficulties 1919–1923
the recession that started in 1929
As a result
Soviet prestige and the unemployment and misery generated by the capitalist crisis
trade unions and communist parties became stronge
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
Some dictatorships were totalitarian regimes with some common characteristics:
all-embracing state
official state ideology
exaltation of the dictator
a single mass party and mobilisation of the masses
dictatorship
repression
system of terror and violence
