Synopsis:
- Decline of the European nation state due to global capitalism and colonialism
- The crisis of the nation state leads to the delegitimation of political institutions
- The appeal of totalitarian ideologies, with their capacity to mobilize huge number of people, rests upon the devastation of the ordered and stable societies in which those people once lived
- Totalitarian ideologies offer explanations for the events of the past (what caused the evil that destroyed the old order) and thus for the present, and offer a reassuring path to reestablishing order and stability in the future
- New imperial ideologies
- Pan-Germanic (Nazism)
- Pan-Slavic (Soviet Union)
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