Collectivist Visions of Alternative Modernity. An original work of historical synthesis by an esteemed international scholar, this book offers the first comparative analysis of the four different types of collectivism (communism, fascism; Nazism; anarchism) that aspired to create an ‘alternative modernity’ in twentieth-century Europe. The author presents not only the authoritarian alternatives to democracy of the past century, but also the experiment with anarchism undertaken in Spain in the late 1930s. The analysis shows how these political systems are driven by competing visions of alternative modernity and how the prioritization of values plays out in politics. Each political concept discussed in the book found support among broad sectors of its respective population at one time or anot
Collectivist Visions of Alternative Modernity. An original work of historical synthesis by an esteemed international scholar, this book offers the first comparative analysis of the four different types of collectivism (communism, fascism; Nazism; anarchism) that aspired to create an ‘alternative modernity’ in twentieth-century Europe. The author presents not only the authoritarian alternatives to democracy of the past century, but also the experiment with anarchism undertaken in Spain in the late 1930s. The analysis shows how these political systems are driven by competing visions of alternative modernity and how the prioritization of values plays out in politics. Each political concept discussed in the book found support among broad sectors of its respective population at one time or another, and was championed by professionals in the countries in which it took hold.
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Author
Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher
CEU Press
Central European University Press
ISBN
9789633863091
Format
Hardcover
Year Published
2019
Pages
474
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Collectivist Visions of Alternative Modernity. An original work of historical synthesis by an esteemed international scholar, this book offers the first comparative analysis of the four different types of collectivism (communism, fascism; Nazism; anarchism) that aspired to create an ‘alternative modernity’ in twentieth-century Europe. The author presents not only the authoritarian alternatives to democracy of the past century, but also the experiment with anarchism undertaken in Spain in the late 1930s. The analysis shows how these political systems are driven by competing visions of alternative modernity and how the prioritization of values plays out in politics. Each political concept discussed in the book found support among broad sectors of its respective population at one time or anot