TY - GEN A1 - Behrends, Jan C. T1 - Dictatorship: Modern Tyranny Between Leviathan and Behemoth (Version 2.0) (english version) N2 - Version 2.0: In the Roman Republic, a dictatorship (dictatura in Latin) referred to an institution of constitutional law. In times of emergency the senate would temporarily grant a dictator extraordinary powers to defend and restore state order. This classic meaning was reshaped in various ways during the twentieth century. Dictatorship became an ambiguous term whose range of meanings could encompass positive expectations as well as moral condemnation. The modern concept of dictatorship has been used as both a self-descriptor as well as a label employed by others to describe communist, fascist and Nazi rule. KW - Begriffe Y1 - 2017 UR - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/790 UR - http://docupedia.de/zg/behrends_dictatorship_v2_en_2017 ER -