Handbook

This subject examines the emergence and prevalence of dictatorship as a form of government in the century since World War One.  It explores the practices of the Communist and Nazi states in the light of key themes including imperialism, colonisation, slavery, war and ideology. It asks whether events such as Collectivisation or the Holocaust were unique or are better understood as examples of Genocide. It seeks to understand the impact of the Communist and Nazi states upon ordinary people and how the legacy of Hitler, Stalin and Mao haunt the politics of the present day. It compares present-day examples of dictatorship in China and Russia with their twentieth-century antecedents. Finally, it looks at answers to the question of why dictatorship has proved to be such an enduring challenge to liberal democracy around the globe