@article{753116,
      recid = {753116},
      author = {Lüdtke, Alf,},
      title = {Everyday life in mass dictatorship collusion and evasion /  [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)},
      abstract = {"Dictatorship implies oppression and arbitrary violence  from above. However, this volume and the Mass Dictatorship  in the 20th Century series to which it contributes  dismantles that general assumption. Everyday Life in Mass  Dictatorship explores the multiple forms and practices of  ordinary people as they became active participants in the  grand mobilisation of society not only promised, but  actively pursued by dictatorial regimes in the 20th  century. The volume is centrally concerned with two aspects  of collusion and evasion: warfare and ruthless policies of  exclusion. The impact this avalanche of unbounded violence  had on survivors and successive generations is the  overarching theme of the studies presented in this volume  on post-colonial and post-Stalinist dictatorships. The  extent to which post-colonial regimes carried on  non-democratic asymmetries of power or established them  anew is breathtaking. Yet the prospects of better living  and 'modern times' met with overwhelming popular support in  the East and West, as well as in the global North and  South"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/753116},
}