William David Jones
This is the second edition, revised and updated. The American Library Association named the first edition to its Choice list of Outstanding Academic Titles in 2001.
Biographical Note
William David Jones, Ph.D. (1992), Claremont Graduate School, is Professor Emeritus of History at Mt. San Antonio College. He has published articles and reviews on the intellectual and political history of the Left in Europe and the United States.
Readership
This book is for college and university students in Modern European and U.S. History, Government, and Political Philosophy, as well as graduate students and research specialists in those fields.
Table of Contents
Preface [2026]
Acknowledgements [2026]
Preface [1999]
Acknowledgements [1999]
Introduction
1 Strange Defeat: The Weimar Left, 1918–1933
1 The German Left and the New Dictatorships
2 The German Left Divided
3 Assessing the Dangers
4 The German Left Defeated
2 Socialists in Dark Times: Exile, 1933–1939
1 New Perspectives on Fascism
2 A New Beginning for German Socialism?
3 Charting Theories of the Totalitarian State
4 Spain and the Hitler–Stalin Pact
3 Varieties of Anti-Totalitarianism: Wartime, 1939–1945
1 Brown and Red Fascism
2 Strategies of Anti-Totalitarianism
3 The Totalitarian Counterrevolution
4 Responding to the New Authoritarian State
5 Totalitarianism and the State Capitalism Debate
6 Case Study of a Totalitarian Legal System
7 Nazism as Totalitarianism?
8 The Critique of Totalitarian Reason
4 Totalitarianism’s Temptations: Cold War and After
1 Leftist Intellectuals after the War
2 On Marx and Marxism
3 Responding to the Cold War
4 The Long March through the Institutions
5 Traces of the ‘Lost Debate’
Bibliography
Index
