Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe

Lisa Pine is Associate Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK. She is the author of Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945 (1997), Hitler’s “National Community”: Society and Culture in Nazi Germany (2007, 2017), Education in Nazi Germany (2010) and Debating Genocide (2018). She is the editor of Life and Times in Nazi Germany (2016) and The Family in Modern Germany (2020).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Lisa Pine (London South Bank University, UK)1. Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Kate Ferris (University of St Andrews, UK)2. Daily Life in Hitler’s Germany, Lisa Pine (London South Bank University, UK)3. Life in Franco’s Spain, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez (Trent University, Canada)4. Salazar’s Portugal: Living ‘By Habit’ in an Authoritarian Regime, António Costa Pinto (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Duncan Simpson (University of Lisbon, Portugal)5. Transnational Totalitarianism and the Building of a New Public Consciousness in Karlis Ulmanis’s Latvia, Jordan T. Kuck (Brevard College, USA)6. Everyday Life in the Soviet Union under Stalin, Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida, USA)7. Life in Ceau?escu’s Romania, Dennis Deletant (Georgetown University, USA)8. Between Barbed Wire and Country Garden Idyll: Dictatorship and Everyday Life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Stefan Wolle (GDR Museum, Germany)Conclusion, Lisa Pine (London South Bank University, UK)Index

Lisa Pine’s latest edited volume will prove to be invaluable for scholars and students interested in the history of everyday life in dictatorships in Western and Eastern Europe. The transnational, comparative approach illuminates the diverse responses of ordinary citizens to these regimes, and the ways in which individuals conformed to, accommodated or evaded state control. With nuanced analysis of daily life in diverse societies, the chapters in this cohesive volume offer an extraordinary glimpse into the social and cultural history of coercion, consent, and dissent in some of the most violent regimes of the twentieth century.