Concepts for the comparison of dictatorships

Abstract

Part 1: Totalitarianism 1. The History of the Concept of Totalitarianism in Italy 2. Luigi Sturzo as a Theorist of Totalitarianism 3. Waldemar Gurian and the Development of the Concept of Totalitarianism 4. Reflections on Russian Totalitarianism 5. Natural Science in the Soviet Union under Totalitarian Conditions at the Beginning of the 1930s 6. The Other Side of Totalitarianism: The state of the debate in Hungary 7. A Glance at the History and Present of the Bohemian Countries Part 2: Political Religions 8. The Religious Use of Politics and/or the Political Use of Religion: Ersatz ideology versus ersatz religion 9 . Terror and Salvation: Experience of Political Events in the Work of Romano Guardini 10. The Concept of 'Political Religions' in the Thought of Eric Voegelin 11. The Modern Despotic Regime and Literature Part 3: General Discussion 12. Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships: 'Totalitarianism' and 'political religions' 13. Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and its Consequences: A theoretical perspective 14. Despotism, Ersatz Religion, Religious Ersatz 15. Reflections on Future Totalitarianism Research 16. The Historicity of Totalitarianism: George Orwell's evidence Part 4: Research Contributions 17. Totalitarianism as a Twentieth-Century Phenomenon 18. National Socialism, Fascism and Authoritarian Regimes 19. Religious and Ecclesiastical Structures in Communism and National Socialism, and the Role of the Writer 20. Enlightenment and Terror: Historico-metaphysical prerequisites of totalitarian democracy 21. On Marxism, Christianity and Totalitarianism