Edward Conze's The Psychology of Mass Propaganda

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<P>Edward Conze¿s <I>The Psychology of Mass Propaganda</I> presents a commentary on the psychology of propaganda during the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s. It discusses the conditions which generate vulnerability to misinformation in human societies, and thus offers insight into how propaganda may be "withstood." Completed in 1939, during the period of Conze¿s own inflection from Marxist philosophy to Buddhist studies, the original manuscript was never published and is now in print for the first time.</P><P></P><P>Presenting a unique historical perspective, while also appealing to an acutely topical interest in the conditions under which autocracy and fascism arise, the book examines the psychology of mass propaganda through copious contemporary and historical examples. Conze focuses especially on recent news articles and the statements of the propagandists of many of the governments that would go on to participate in the Second World War, including Germany, Italy, the USSR, US