The age of the dictators : a study of the European dictatorships, 1918-53 : Williamson, D. G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xxviii, 524 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Pt. 1. The origins of the dictatorships -- Ch. 1. The years of crisis, 1890-1918 -- Pt. 2. The legacy of war and partial recovery -- Ch. 2. The victory of Leninism in Russia, 1917-27 -- Ch. 3. Italy : the creation of the Fascist state, 1918-29 -- Ch. 4. The vacuum of power and the rise of authoritarianism, 1918-29 -- Ch. 5. Weimar Germany : the seedbed of Nazism? -- Pt. 3. The 1930s : the impact of the Great Depression -- Ch. 6. The collapse of Weimar and the triumph of National Socialism, 1930-4 -- Ch. 7. The Third Reich, 1933-9 -- Ch. 8. The development of Italian Fascism, 1929-39 -- Ch. 9. The Spanish Civil War and the beginning of the Franco regime -- Ch. 10. Stalin and the second revolution, 1927-41 -- Ch. 11. Institutionalized authoritarianism -- Pt. 4. The dictators and the Second World War -- Ch. 12. Europe under German domination -- Ch. 13. Nazi Germany : the home front -- Ch. 14. Fascist Italy at war -- Ch. 15. Stalinism and the Great Patriotic War -- Ch. 16. The survivors : the USSR, Spain and Portugal -- Pt. 5. Assessment -- Ch. 17. The dual triumph of Western democracy and Marxism-Leninism