This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and deaths of different fascist, para-fascist and communist

Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

How did political power function in the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a

European Dictatorships 1918–1945 surveys the extraordinary circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe’s states to

In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exerci