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Stalinism and Nazism: History and Memory Compared (European Horizons)

By Henry Rousso , Peter Rogers , Richard J. Golsan , Lucy Golsan , Thomas Christian Hilde

Book information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0803290004, 9780803290006
LCC
JC480 .S8313 2004
Open Library ID
OL3681448M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3775339 bytes)
Pages
325\347
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this volume Europe’s leading modern historians offer new insights into two totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century that have profoundly affected world history—Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. Until now historians have paid more attention to the similarities between these two regimes than to their differences. Stalinism and Nazism explores the difficult relationship between the history and memory of the traumas inflicted by Nazi and Soviet occupation in several Eastern European countries in the twentieth century. The first part of the volume explores the origins, nature, and organization of Hitler’s and Stalin’s dictatorial power, the manipulation of violence by the state systems, and the comparative power of the dictator’s personal will and the encompassing totalitarian system. The second part examines the legacies of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes in Eastern European countries that experienced both. Stalinism and Nazism features the latest critical perspectives on two of the most influential and deadly political regimes in modern history.

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