Mock Exam 17 SAQ 1 - Withrow
Use the passage below to answer all parts of the questions.
“[When] the middle class, instead of struggling for change, struggles to preserve the status quo . . . a new species of dictator emerges—the ‘crisis man’—whose primary economic function is not the freeing of business enterprise from the restraints of aristocracy, as in the past, but the suppression of the revolutionary power of labor in a period of crisis. Thereafter, the crisis-man, whose prototype is Napoleon I, looms up whenever the established order . . . is seriously threatened from the left. . . .At a time of crisis the capitalistic business man accepts the dictatorship of the Napoleon to preserve his capital and title to property, even at the partial sacrifice of his freedom.”
Albert Carr, Juggernaut: The Path of Dictatorship, 1939
Question 1
Describe how one specific piece of evidence supports Carr’s interpretation of the nature of Napoleon’s rule.
Question 2
Describe how one specific piece of evidence undermines Carr’s interpretation of the nature of Napoleon’s rule.
Question 3
Explain how one feature of the political context of the interwar period in which Carr was writing influenced his interpretation of Napoleon’s rule.
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