Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship

1. Front Matter

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2. Scope and Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introductory Notes

      • Alf Lüdtke

      Pages 3-12

   3. Ordinary People, Self-Energising, and Room for Manoeuvering: Examples from 20th Century Europe

      • Alf Lüdtke

      Pages 13-34

3. Dictatorial and Colonial Regimes 1930–1960: Practices of Domination and Modes of Appropriation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. The Third Reich: Police State or Self-Policing Society?

      • Peter Lambert

      Pages 37-54

   3. Self-Reassurance in Troubled Times: German Diaries During the Upheavals of 1933

      • Michael Wildt

      Pages 55-74

   4. Collaboration, Complicity, and Evasion Under Italian Fascism

      • Paul Corner

      Pages 75-93

   5. Stalinism ‘From Below’?: Soviet State, Society, and the Great Terror

      • Kevin McDermott

      Pages 94-111

   6. The Politics of National Language and Wartime Mobilisation of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea, 1937–1945

      • Kyu Hyun Kim

      Pages 112-125

   7. Industrial Warriors: Labour Heroes and Everyday Life in Wartime Colonial Korea, 1937–1945

      • Michael Kim

      Pages 126-146

   8. Consumption and Consumerism in the German Democratic Republic

      • Harald Dehne

      Pages 147-162

4. Postcolonial Settings 1950–1990: Dimensions of Subjectivity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. North Korea and the Education of Desire: Totalitarianism, Everyday Life, and the Making of Post-Colonial Subjectivity

      • Charles K. Armstrong

      Pages 165-183

   3. Comrade Min, Women’s Paid Labour, and the Centralising Party-State: Postwar Reconstruction in North Korea

      • Andre Schmid

      Pages 184-201

   4. Between Autonomy and Productivity: The Everyday Lives of Korean Women Workers During the Park Chung-hee Era

      • Won Kim

      Pages 202-217

   5. Conscription, Collaboration, and Self-Cutting in Rural Senegal During and After World War II

      • Dennis C. Galvan

      Pages 218-226

   6. The Convention People’s Party (CPP) in Ghana, Late 1950s to the 1970s: Mobilisation for Transformation

      • Richard Rathbone

      Pages 227-249

5. Back Matter

   Pages 250-260

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Oppression and violence are often cited as the pivotal aspects of modern dictatorships, but it is the collusion of large majorities that enable these regimes to function. The desire for a better life and a powerful national, if not imperial community provide the basis for the many forms of people's cooperation explored in this volume.

• dictatorship
• war
• 20th century
• post-colonial history
• Europe
• Asia
• North Korea
• totalitarianism
• colonial history
• history
• police
• politics
• society
• transformation
• violence
• World War I
• World War II

“The volume edited by Lüdtke is as a highly stimulating and thought provoking contribution on everyday life under mass dictatorships. It succeeds in giving a new twist to the protracted historiographical debates on the agency of the ‘masses’ … . The volume thus reveals the intersections between the everyday life in the classic totalitarian regimes and in colonial/postcolonial settings.” (Ángel Alcalde, German Studies Review, Vol. 40 (2), May, 2016)

• Universität Erfurt, Germany

  Alf Lüdtke

Alf Lüdtke is retired from the Max-Planck-Institute for History, in Göttingen, Germany, and the University of Erfurt, Germany, where he is now Honorarprofessor. He has held Visiting Professorships at universities in the U.S. (Princeton University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Israel, and South Korea. He researches domination and violence, transformations of industrial work, the emergence of 'modern' forms of the visual, and the history of the everyday. Recent publications include: Unsettling History: Archiving and Narrating in Historiography (co-editor); Istorija povsednevnosti v Germanii; Kolonialgeschichten (co-editor); and Polizei, Gewalt und Staat im 20: Jahrhundert (co-editor).

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