Mass dictatorship

Mass dictatorship, also known as consensus dictatorship (German: Konsensdiktatur), is a concept developed to explain the phenomenon of a political dictatorship that rules primarily with popular support rather than by terror; it is therefore opposed to the totalitarianism theory of dictatorship.^[1] Examples of consensus dictatorships cited include Nazi Germany^[2] and East Germany.^[3] The book Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche is an example of a work that portrays Nazi Germany as a consensus dictatorship.^[4]

References[edit]

^ Lim, Jie-Hyun (2005). "Historiographical Perspectives on 'Mass Dictatorship'". Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. 6 (3): 325–331. doi:10.1080/14690760500317669. S2CID 146875096.
^ Stone, Dan (2010). Histories of the Holocaust. Oxford University Press. pp. 9, 167. ISBN 978-0-19-956679-2.
^ Grafe, Roman (14 September 2010). Die Schuld der Mitläufer: Anpassen oder Widerstehen in der DDR (in German). Pantheon Verlag. p. 91. ISBN 978-3-641-04533-3.
^ Stone 2010, p. 4.

[1] Lim, Jie-Hyun (2005). "Historiographical Perspectives on 'Mass Dictatorship'". Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. 6 (3): 325–331. doi:10.1080/14690760500317669. S2CID 146875096.

[2] Stone, Dan (2010). Histories of the Holocaust. Oxford University Press. pp. 9, 167. ISBN 978-0-19-956679-2.

[3] Grafe, Roman (14 September 2010). Die Schuld der Mitläufer: Anpassen oder Widerstehen in der DDR (in German). Pantheon Verlag. p. 91. ISBN 978-3-641-04533-3.

[FOOTNOTEStone20104-4] Stone 2010, p. 4.

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