Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in ComparisonIan Kershaw, Moshe Lewin The internationally distinguished contributors to this landmark volume represent a variety of approaches to the Nazi and Stalinist regimes. These far-reaching essays provide the raw materials towards a comparative analysis and offer the means to deepen and extend research in the field. The first section highlights similarities and differences in the leadership cults at the heart of the dictatorships. The second section moves to the 'war machines' engaged in the titanic clash of the regimes between 1941 and 1945. A final section surveys the shifting interpretations of successor societies as they have faced up to the legacy of the past. Combined, the essays presented here offer unique perspectives on the most violent and inhumane epoch in modern European history. |
Contents
Stalin and his Stalinism power and authority in the Soviet Union 193053 | 26 |
Bureaucracy and the Stalinist state | 53 |
Cumulative radicalisation and progressive selfdestruction as structural determinants of the Nazi dictatorship | 75 |
Working towards the Führer reflections on the nature of the Hitler dictatorship | 88 |
Stalin in the mirror of the other | 107 |
The contradictions of continuous revolution | 135 |
From Blitzkrieg to total war controversial links between image and reality | 158 |
Stalin the Red Army and the Great Patriotic War | 185 |
The economics of war in the Soviet Union during World War II | 208 |
From Great Fatherland War to the Second World War new perspectives and future prospects | 237 |
German exceptionalism and the origins of Nazism the career of a concept | 251 |
Stalinism and the politics of postSoviet history | 285 |
Work gender and everyday life reflections on continuity normality and agency in twentiethcentury Germany | 311 |
Afterthoughts | 343 |
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