Twentieth-Century Dictatorships: The Ideological One-Party States

by Paul Brooker

The ideological one-party states were a modernized form of dictatorship 'invented' early in the twentieth. Equipped with an offical ideology and political party, these truly twentieth-century dictatorships were the rivals of democracy from the 1920s to the 1980s - at first largely in the form of fascist regimes and later largely in the form of communist and military regimes.

Many of the most famous and interesting examples are included among the book's sixteen case-studies of the types and varieties of ideological one-party state. the case-studies include not only the fascist and communist examples but also military ones, where an army has established an ideology and political party to strength or hide its military rule. a number of the case-studies are drawn from the Third World (from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia) as part of the book's wide geographical and historical coverage of these twentieth-century dictatorships.

311 pages, Paperback

First published November 14, 1994