Stalinism and Nazism

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The several contributions to this landmark volume represent a variety of new and unique approaches to the joint study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes. Moshe Lewin and lan Kershaw, prominent Russian and Germán experts, respectively, have assembled a distinguished international team of historians and sociologists to examine the parallel aspects of totalitarianism. Although not explicitly comparative, these far-reaching essays provide the necessary foundation for a fuller comparative analysis and the means to deepen and extend research in the field. The essays are grouped into three selective areas of common ground between the systems. 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 area covered surveys the shifting interpretations of successor societies in Germany and Russia as they have faced... Tovább

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The several contributions to this landmark volume represent a variety of new and unique approaches to the joint study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes. Moshe Lewin and lan Kershaw, prominent Russian and Germán experts, respectively, have assembled a distinguished international team of historians and sociologists to examine the parallel aspects of totalitarianism. Although not explicitly comparative, these far-reaching essays provide the necessary foundation for a fuller comparative analysis and the means to deepen and extend research in the field. The essays are grouped into three selective areas of common ground between the systems. 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 area covered surveys the shifting interpretations of successor societies in Germany and Russia as they have faced up to the legacy of the past. Stalinism and Nazism combines state-of-the-art research with fresh perspectives on the most violent and ínhumane epoch in modern European history. It will be essential reading for both students and specialists in the social and political sciences, international relations and transcultural studies. lan Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, and Fellow of the British Academy. Moshe Lewin is Professor-Emeritus of History in the Department of History, University of Pennsylvania. The contributors are Ronald Suny Moshe Lewin Hans Mommsen lan Kershaw Michael Mann Jacques Sapir Bernd Bonwetsch Omer Bartov Mary Nolan Mark von Hagen George Steinmetz Cover illustrations Above: Hitler with a group of Staff Officers using a trench periscope, 1940. Reproduced by permission of the Wiener Library. Below: Stalin visiting a warship of the Black Sea fleet, probable date summer 1944. Vissza