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Part of the book series: Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century ((MASSD))

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Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema sees twelve theorists and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary subject of life in twentieth-century mass dictatorships. Generously defined, the ‘literary’ in this context covers a wide spectrum of narrative forms, ranging from the commercial television documentary to popular crime fiction, and from digitally restored amateur film on DVD to a Nobel Prize winning novel.

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  1. Jie-Hyun Lim, ‘Series Introduction: Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Towards a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship’, in Jie-Hyun Lim and Karen Petrone (eds) Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 1–22.

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  2. Astrid Hedin, ‘Stalinism As a Civilization: New Perspectives on Communist Regimes’, Political Studies Review 2(2) (2004), pp. 166–184.

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© 2013 Michael Schoenhals and Karin Sarsenov

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Schoenhals, M., Sarsenov, K. (2013). Introduction. In: Schoenhals, M., Sarsenov, K. (eds) Imagining Mass Dictatorships. Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330697_1

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330697_1

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London

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