Ebook: Palgrave handbook of mass dictatorship

Introduction -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Part I. Projects: 1. Introduction: mass dictatorship as modernizing project: some preliminary reflections / Konrad Jarausch; 2. History of future: imagining the Communist future: the Soviet and Chinese cases compared / S.A. Smith; 3. Sociopolitical engineering / Guido Franzinetti; 4. Colonialism and mass dictatorship: the imperial axis and the home front in Japan, Italy and Germany / Daniel Hedinger; 5. Nation-building and development as ideology and practice / Michael Kim; 6. Political religion / Charles Armstrong; 7. Science and technology: national identity, self-reliance, technocracy and biopolitics / Sang-Hyun Kim -- Part II. Domination: 8. Introduction: repression and cooptation in mass dictatorship / António Costa Pinto; 9. Violence, repression and terror in mass dictatorships: a view from the European margins / António Costa Pinto and Filipa Raimundo; 10. Policing and surveillance / Jonathan Dunnage; 11. Inclusion and exclusion as instruments of domination / Eve Rosenhaft; 12. The archive as blueprint: information in mass dictatorships / Ioana Macrea-Toma; 13. Economic control and consent in wartime Japan / Janis Mimura; 14. Maneuvering memories of dictatorship and conflicts: the Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia / Nobuya Hashimoto.;This book offers a fresh and original approach to the study of one of the dominant features of the twentieth century. While confronting the immense complexities of repression and popular response under dictatorship, the volume also poses a series of wide-ranging questions about the political organization of present-day mass society.