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Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Totalitarianism
by Rosemary H. T. O'Kane , University of Keele, UK

Routledge

April 2004: 234x156: 288pp
Hb: 0-415-31473-9: £70.00
Pb: 0-415-31474-7: £20.99

Market: Politics, European Studies and Sociology

Published by: Taylor and Francis Group

Synopsis:
How and why countries become democracies remain intriguing questions. This innovative volume provides a theoretically informed comparative investigation of the links between revolutions, totalitarianism and democracy. It will appeal to those interested in the relationship between history and democracy and the implications for the understanding of democracy today.

Author's previous publications include:
The Revolutionary Reign of Terror (Edward Elgar, 1991)Terror, Force and States (Edward Elgar, 1996) £70.00The Likelihood of Coups (Dartmouth, 1987) £48.00





Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part 1: Democracy: Method and theses
1. On Method: Comparative historical analysis and politics
2. Democracy and Empirical Political Theory: From the present to the past
3. Revolutions and Ideas of Democracy: From the past towards the present

Part 2: Revolution: Chance for Democracy
4. Revolution and the Long Path to Democracy in France
5. Revolution and the Failure of Democracy in Russia and Germany

Part 3: Totalitarianism: Anithesis of democracy
6. The Rise of Totalitarian Regimes: Contrasting France
7. Totalitarian Regime: Nazi Germany
8. Totalitarian Regime: Stalin's Soviet Union

Part 4: Democracy as Synthesis
9. Federal Germany: Retracing a path to democracy
10. Communism and its Collapse: East Germany and the Soviet Union

Part 5: Conclusion: Lessons for democracy
11. The Struggle for Modern Democracy Notes Bibliography