TY - BOOK ID - 2567876 TI - Totalitarianism : the inner history of the cold war. PY - 1995 SN - 0195050177 PB - Oxford : Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Cold War KW - Guerre froide KW - Idéologie totalitaire KW - Koude oorlog KW - Oorlog [Koude ] KW - Régime totalitaire KW - Régimes totalitaires KW - Statocratie KW - Système totalitaire KW - Systèmes totalitaires KW - Totalitarianism KW - Totalitarisme KW - État totalitaire KW - États totalitaires KW - Cold War. KW - Totalitarianism. KW - World politics KW - 20th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2567876 AB - Providing a fascinating account of totalitarianism, historian Abott Gleason offers a penetrating chronicle of the central concept of our era--an era shaped first by our conflict with fascism and then by our conflict with communism. Interweaving the story of intellectual debates with the international history of the twentieth century, Gleason traces the birth of the term to Italy in the first years of Mussolini's rule. He follows the growth and expansion of the concept as it was picked up in the West and applied to Hitler's Germany and the Soviet Union. Gleason's account takes us through the debates of the early postwar years, as academics adopted the term, notably Hannah Arendt. The concept fully entered the public consciousness with the opening of the Cold War, as Truman used the rhetoric of totalitarianism to sell the Truman Doctrine to Congress. As he takes his account through to the 1990s, Gleason offers an inner history of the Cold War, revealing the political charge the term carried for writers on both the left and the right. He also explores the intellectual struggles that swirled around the idea in France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. When the Cold War drew to a close in the late 1980s, Gleason writes, the concept lost much of its importance in the West even as it flourished in Russia, where writers began to describe their own collapsing state as totalitarian. ER -