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    se22016 Familias ad totalitxianism: Behind closed doors |The Economist LSE beeen (4000-0): 00) aa 04 Sem NUNC YU SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE 0 STUENT FERS Which Economist reader are you? EB» The Digital reader Ben sui Economist Families and totalitarianism Behind closed doors A thought-provoking study of family life under pressure Jun 24th 2015 | Erom the print edition Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival 1900-1980, By Paul Ginsborg. Yale University Press; 520 pages; $35 and £25, Buy from Amazon com, Amazon.co.uk ‘THE rise of nationalist and totalitarian ideologies in Europe profoundly aected the family. Having been both bolstered and c custom under the old order, the oldest human institution was transformed, distorted and sometimes destroyed by what followed. afined by religion and In “Family Politics", «haunting, vivid and thought-provoking new work of social history, Paul Ginsborg, a British-born professor in Florence, uses the prism of family life to make sense ofthe first half of the 20th century in the five European countries to which it brought the sharpest changes, ‘They are Illy under Benito Mussolini, Germany under the Nazis, Spain during the civil war and under General Franco, Turkey under Mustafa Kemal ‘Ataturk and Russia later the Soviet Union) in the revolution and under Joseph Stalin, ‘The main treads in his aceount of revolution and dictatorship are te ives of three remarkable women, notably Aleksandra Kollonta, who was ‘nto an upper-middle-lass Russian family and became a fiery revolutionary and the chief theorist of Bolshevik sexual polities, Her Turkish counterpart was 2 nationalist writer, Halide Edib, and in Spain a Republican activist, Margarita Nelken, All of them wrested with the clash between ‘heir plitial principles and tei family reality “Mr Ginsborg also explotes the family lives ofthe stongmen ad their henchmen. Ataturk was an appalling husband, an emotional cripple who spent the first night of his honeymoon drinking wit his male friends. Stalin, abused asa boy, persecuted his own family. Mussoinis loveless home life ‘was as shallow and ramshackle as his regime. The Goebbels family was apparently the epitome of cloyingly sentimental Nazi values. But is fate was ‘macabre, The parents killed six of thet seven children and then themselves in Hitler's bunker a the Third Reich collapsed, “Family Politics” benefits ftom some fine ilustrations, including photographs, propaganda posters and paintings, as wel as Adolf Hitler's favourite picture: a ereepy tableau ofan idealised peasant family (pictured). Perhaps most poignant isthe last image in the book: the desperate faces of 20, anonymous small children incarcerated in Soviet secret-police institution inte late 1930s, to which the offspring of “traitors tothe fatherland” were ‘consigned to die of starvation, illness and neglect. ‘The diferent regimes all wanted families to be functional, productive and obedient pars ofthe new order, but they promoted these aims in radically

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