Violence, Repression and Terror in Mass Dictatorships: A View from the European Margins

Repression remains the core feature of dictatorships, and fear, terror, violence, intimidation and surveillance are at the core of the systems of political domination and maintenance of modern dictatorships. Nevertheless, if repression is a structural dimension of mass dictatorships, "political" and\or "state terror," while always potentially present) is not when we define the latter as the arbitrary extermination of individuals by organs of political authority or groups