What books would you recommend about totalitarianism and politics? I am currently studying this and would be interested – so any books about dictatorships and one-party state rule would be great. Thanks by Twoset_Time Related: Suggest me “starter” sci-fi books Post-apocalyptic books with a female protagonist? Help me find my GF a book she’ll like! I want to read Franz Kafka Books like The Hunger Games?
bdh2067 on March 14, 2024 9:29 pm I recall something from way back in my college days – ancient history now – called The Politics of Cultural Despair.
boxer_dogs_dance on March 14, 2024 9:35 pm This might seem a bit off the wall, but Dark Star Safari is a travel narrative about Africa that reflects on these questions. Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada is historical fiction that vividly conveys what it is like to live under a totalitarian state.
BernardFerguson1944 on March 14, 2024 10:50 pm *Three Faces of Fascism: Action Française, Italian Fascism, National Socialism* by Ernst Nolte. *Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern German and World History* by Gerhard L. Weinberg. *The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements* by Eric Hoffer.
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I recall something from way back in my college days – ancient history now – called The Politics of Cultural Despair.
This might seem a bit off the wall, but Dark Star Safari is a travel narrative about Africa that reflects on these questions.
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada is historical fiction that vividly conveys what it is like to live under a totalitarian state.
*Three Faces of Fascism: Action Française, Italian Fascism, National Socialism* by Ernst Nolte.
*Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern German and World History* by Gerhard L. Weinberg.
*The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements* by Eric Hoffer.