Mondays, 2-4 p.m. March 18 - April 1

In Europe, the years between World Wars I and II seemed to be the decades of the dictator. Not only in Germany and the Soviet Union, but in Austria, Italy, Poland, Portugal and other countries, dictatorships replaced democracies. By 1940, they outnumbered constitutional democracies. What factors led from democracy to dictatorship? Could this happen again? This class will examine the process by which dictators replaced democracies in each of these major countries and suggest danger signs of this process.