What is it about?
Popular responses to totalitarian regimes are often seen in terms of either consensus or resistance. This article analyses the many different positions people can take and argues that the simple binary often proposed is far too simple.
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Why is it important?
The article helps us to understand how ordinary people relate to power.
Perspectives
The article is about regimes of the twentieth century but it can be related without difficulty to many situations in the contemporary world.
Paul Corner
Universita degli Studi di Siena
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This page is a summary of: Dictatorship revisited: consensus, coercion, and strategies of survival, Modern Italy, August 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/mit.2017.39.
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