Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe

Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is also a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a Research Associate of the Science and Research Center of the Republic of Slovenia, Koper. She is the author of 13 scholarly books.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1. Rival Visions of Alternative Modernity: An IntroductionChapter 2. An Evolving Vision of an Alternative Modernity: Soviet CommunismChapter 3. The Quest for an Alternative Modernity: Fascism and Nazism, Part IChapter 4. The Quest for an Alternative Modernity: Fascism and Nazism, Part IIChapter 5. The Quest for Freedom and Solidarity: Anarchism in SpainChapter 6. Epilogue. In Defense of Liberal Democracy—and a WarningGlossaryFurther ReadingAbout the AuthorName indexSubject index

"This is a timely moment to step back from the presentation of contemporary politics and take a historical approach to past challenges to liberal democracy in the twentieth century, which is precisely what Sabrina P. Ramet does in this eloquently written history of alternatives to democracy. She identifies four principal rival visions to that of liberal democracy: German National Socialism, Italian Fascism, Soviet Communism, and Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalism. Ramet's book is an extremely learned and interesting book that will be read with great benefit by anyone interested in the intellectual history of liberal democracy and its adversaries."