Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes

Fascism, Nazism, and Communism in one way and another dominated the history of much of the twentieth century, yet comparatively little attention has focused on popular reactions to the regimes that sprang from these ideologies. Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes is the first volume to investigate popular reactions to totalitarian rule in the Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany, as well as looking at the Communist regimes in Poland and East Germany after 1945. The contributions, written specially for this volume by internationally acknowledged experts in their fields, move beyond the static vision provided by traditional themes of consent and coercion, constructing a more nuanced picture of everyday life in the various regimes and stimulating re-evaluation of the way totalitarian regimes functioned and the reasons for their decline.