Crises in Authoritarian Regimes

Jörg Baberowski is professor of East European history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Martin Wagner is a research fellow and PhD candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

• Contents Acknowledgments................................................................................................. 9 Crises in Authoritarian Regimes: An Introduction........................................ 11 Jörg Baberowski and Martin Wagner I. Contemporary Crises and Authoritarian Response A Manufactured Crisis? How Authoritarian Regimes Undermine Their Own Legitimacy¾The Case of Putin’s Russia in 2018–2020........... 29 Alexander Libman Learning from a Neighboring Crisis: Did the Belarusian and Kazakh Regimes Learn from the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, 2013–2014? .............................. 53 Stephen G. F. Hall China’s “Anti-Corruption” Campaign under Xi Jinping: Framing Catastrophe and Catharsis in a Never-Ending Crisis.................... 79 Bertram Lang Authoritarian (Dis-)Advantages: A Comparative Study of the Handling of the SARS and Covid-19 Crises in China................................. 115 Carolin Kautz 6 C ONTENTS II. (Dis-)Continuity of Crisis¾The Interwar Period To Hold and to Let Go: The Political Discourse of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1923.......................... 143 Duygu Coskuntuna A Permanent State of Exception? Managing Crises in Late Imperial Germany and the Early Weimar Republic, 1917–1923............................... 165 Amerigo Caruso Triple Threat: Resource Interdependence and the Interwar Authoritarian Crises.......................................................................... 191 Rob Konkel III. Identities and Ideologies of Crisis Towards Native “Fascism From Above”: Crisis of Legitimacy, “Legal Revolution”, and the Reshaping of Polish Politics in the Mid-1930s ................................................................ 217 Grzegorz Krzywiec Reinventing Pétain: Crisis and Cults of Personality in Vichy France, 1940–1942...................... 241 Stefan Schubert Student Politics between Imagination and Action: The National Students Federation and the Anti-Ayub Movement in Pakistan, 1956–1971 .............................. 267 Meher Ali Exhaustion as Rebellion: The Identity Crisis of Salaried Women in South Korea and Kim Sung-ok’s Novella, “A Night Walk” (1969)......................................... 289 Chan Yong BU C ONTENTS 7 IV. Violent Crises, Crises of Violence Necessity, Preliminarity and Moderation: The IACHR Mission in 1979 and the Argentine Junta’s Response .......... 317 Janis Nalbadidacis South Africa’s “Total National Strategy”¾Or How to Think About the Future of Apartheid in Times of Crisis, 1975–1984................. 337 Jakob Zollmann Afterword: Emergency as Normalcy.............................................................. 365 Armin Nassehi Authors............................................................................................................... 373