Contesting Democracy

Key Insight 1: World War I Shattered the Old Order and Unleashed Mass Politics

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Key Insight 2: Interwar Europe Became a Laboratory for Radical Political Experiments

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Key Insight 3: Fascism Forged a Myth of the Total State and a Purified National Subject

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Key Insight 4: Stalinism Aimed to Create a New Soviet People Through Party Control and Terror

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Key Insight 5: Post-War Western Europe Built Constrained Democracies Focused on Stability

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Key Insight 6: Christian Democracy Emerged as a Key Force Reconciling Faith and Democracy

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Key Insight 7: Post-War Eastern Europe Developed Bureaucratic 'People's Democracies'

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Key Insight 8: The 1960s Challenged Consensus Politics and Technocracy with Demands for Autonomy

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Key Insight 9: Late 20th-Century Crises Fueled Neoliberalism and Critiques of the State

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Key Insight 10: Dissident 'Antipolitics' in the East Undermined Totalitarian Regimes

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Key Insight 11: The Fall of Communism Marked the End of an Ideological Age, Not History

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