HIEU 152The Worst of Times: Everyday Life in Authoritarian and Dictatorial Societies

4 units · HIEU · UC San Diego

Examines how ordinary citizens coped with the problems of life under Europe’s authoritarian regimes. Topics may include Nazism, fascism, and quasi-fascist societies (e.g., Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal), and communist practice from Leninism to Stalinism to the milder Titoism of Yugoslavia.