Mass Dictatorship and Modernity

1. Introduction: Mass Dictatorship and the Radical Project for Modernity
Michael Kim, Michael Schoenhals

Part I. Radical Projects for Modernisation

2. Mass Dictatorship: A Transnational Formation of Modernity
Jie-Hyun Lim

3. Mass Dictatorship and the ‘Modernist State’
Roger Griffin

4. Nebulous Nexus: Modernity and Perlustration in Maoist China
Michael Schoenhals

5. Staging the Police: Visual Presentation and Everyday Coloniality
Hui-yu Caroline Ts’ai

Part II. The Public Sphere and Mass Dictatorship

6. Habermas, Fascism, and the Public Sphere
Paul Corner

7. Total War Mobilisation and the Transformation of the National Public Sphere in Japan, 1931–45
Kyu Hyun Kim

8. Between Liberalism and National Socialism: The Historical Role of Volunteer Firemen Associations in Austria as a Public Sphere
Hiroko Mizuno

9. Colonial Publicness as Metaphor
Hae-dong Yun, Michael Kim

10. The Colonial Public Sphere and the Discursive Mechanism of Mindo
Michael Kim

Part III. Modern Subjectification and Agency

11. Models of Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Soviet Case in Historical Perspective
Choi Chatterjee, Karen Petrone

12. The End of the Weimar Republic: Individual Agency, Germany’s ‘Old Elites’, and the ‘Crisis of Classical Modernity’
Peter Lambert

13. Total, Thus Broken: Chuch’e Sasang and North Korea’s Terrain of Subjectivity
Cheehyung Kim

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political History, Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, History, general