Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison

Abstract

Preface Introduction: the regimes and their dictators: perspectives of comparison Part I. The Two Dictatorships: 1. Stalin and his Stalinism: power and authority in the Soviet Union 1930-1953 Ronal Suny 2. Bureaucracy and the Stalinist state Moshe Lewin 3. Cumulative radicalisation and progressive self-destruction: structural determinants of the Nazi dictatorship Hans Mommsen 4. 'Working towards the Fuhrer': reflections on the nature of the Hitler dictatorship Ian Kershaw 5. The contradictions of continuous revolution Michael Mann Part II. The War Machines: 6. The economics of war in the Soviet Union during World War II Jacques Sapir 7. Stalin, the Red Army, and the great patriotic war Bern Bonwetsch 8. From Blitzkrieg to total war: controversial links between image and reality Omer Bartov Part III. The Big Debates: 9. Work, gender and everyday life: reflections on continuity, normality and agency in twentieth century Germany Mary Nolan 10. From 'Great Fatherland War' to the Second World War: new perspectives and future prospects Mark von Hagen 11. German exceptionalism and the origins of Nazism in the career of a concept George Steinmetz 12. Stalinism and the politics of post-Soviet history Mark von Hagen Conclusion.

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