Political Structures: Totalitarianism & Dictatorship

The ongoing war in Ukraine, between freedom and totalitarianism, has been brewing since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: the great victory of l...

The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of p...

Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishable political parties taking part in lengthy, overcomplicated and expen...

Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to...

Theres no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influen...

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dea...

In Is Russia Fascist?, Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of fascism has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Put...

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilienceConventional wisdom holds that...

Artists, theorists, activists, and scholars propose concrete forms of non-fascist living as the rise of contemporary fascisms threatens the foundat...

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilienceConventional wisdom holds that...

How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary exc...

Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still div...

A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year Brilliant NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR Enlightening and a good read SPECTATOR...

A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen. 'A witty and page-turning...