Author: UNGER, ARYEH L.
Title: The totalitarian party : party and people in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia / [by] Aryeh L. Unger
Description: London [etc.] : Cambridge University Press 1974. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Copy is signed. inscribed and dated.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 286 pages; Physical description. : ix. 286 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945. Alemania - Politica y gobierno - 1933 1945 Rusia - Politica y gobierno - 1917 Russia - Politics and government - 1917-Russia - Politics and government - 1927. Notes: Includes index. Bibl. : p.272-280. - Index. Contents: Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The party and the masses; 2. Totalitarian propaganda; 3. Totalitarian organization; 4. Political agitation in Nazi Germany; 5. Political agitation in Soviet Russia; 6. Indirect propaganda: the usurpation of leisure and ritual; 7. Propaganda of the deed: welfare; 8. Reporting public opinion; 9. Concluding remarks; List of sources; Index. Summary: Originally published in 1974. this book deals with the role of the totalitarian party in relation to the people under its rule. Drawing upon a wide range of published and unpublished sources from the two foremost examples of totalitarian government in the twentieth century. the book examines the specific contribution of the party to the control and mobilization of people under totalitarianism of the 'Right' and 'Left'. Dr Unger begins by setting out the doctrinal assumptions that shaped and legitimated the attitudes of the Nazi and Soviet parties to the broad mass of the people. Against this background he then traces the Nazi and Soviet approaches to propaganda and organization and describes and analyses the interaction of these two primary ingredients of totalitarian 'voluntary compulsion' in the realms of political agitation. leisure and ritual and social welfare. Although the importance of the party as a principal instrument of totalitarian government was widely recognized. this was the first comparative study of the functions of such parties in an area in which totalitarian regimes impinge directly upon the lives of their subjects.ISBN: 0521204275. Weight in Kg appr.:

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