Stalinism And Nazism: Dictatorships In Comparison

Cover
Front Matter
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction: The regimes and their dictators: perspectives of comparison
	The need to compare
	II. Comparative approaches
1 Stalin and his Stalinism: power and authority in the Soviet Union, 1930–53
	I Power and persuasion in the 1920s
	II Building the apparat
	Ill Building hegemony in the 1930s
	IV Inventing opposition
	V Conservative revolutionary
	VI Terror and autocracy
	VII Victory and decline, finale and conclusion
2 Bureaucracy and the Stalinist state
	In a nutshell
	Trends and stages
	1937–9: Kill them any way you like still . . .
	Older thinkers and Soviet realities
	Stalin and bureaucracy
	Borrowing from Hans Rosenberg
	Addendum
3 Cumulative radicalisation and progressive self-destruction as structural determinants of the Nazi dictatorship
4 \'Working towards the Fuhrer\': reflections on the nature of the Hitler dictatorship*
5 Stalin in the mirror of the other
	Stalin\'s cult-autocracy
	The evanescent \'alibi\'
	A civilisation amidst low literacy
	Hitler and Stalin – images and myths
	Stalin: personality and power
	The warlord
	The overlord of the arts (literature)
	The Old Tyrant
6 The contradictions of continuous revolution
	Introduction: labels and models
	From bureaucracy to chaos
	Revolutionary goals
	The politics of continuous revolution
	Methods of rule in regimes of continuous revolution
	The revolutionary process
	Regime dynamic cycles
	Bibliography
7 From Blitzkrieg to total war: controversial links between image and reality
	I Realities and impressions
	II Controversies and historiography
	III Images and representation
8 Stalin, the Red Army, and the \'Great Patriotic War\'
	I. The economic implications of the Soviet art of warfare
		A. Before the war
		B. Operational art and the economic cost of defeat in 1941–2
		C. Operational art and the cost of victory
		D. Soviet operational art in perspective
	II. From a \'mobilisation economy\' to war economics
		A. The evolution of Soviet planning in a comparative perspective
		B. Systemic implications of the Soviet Union\'s productive effort
		C. Adapting to the war in retrospect
9 The economics of war in the Soviet Union during World War II
10 From \'Great Fatherland War\' to the Second World War: new perspectives and future prospects
11 German exceptionalism and the origins of Nazism: the career of a concept
	I. The many lanes in the \'German road\'
	II. Critiques of the German exceptionalism thesis
	III. Transcending the social ontology of the exceptionalism debate
	IV. The Sonderweg as a political weapon
	Conclusion: a post-Holocaust Sonderweg
	References
12 Stalinism and the politics of post-Soviet history
	The contexts of the discussion
	The evolution of the Stalin debate
	The Stalin debate: achievements and limits
	The \'national question\' and the Stalin debate
13 Work, gender and everyday life: reflections on continuity, normality and agency in twentieth-century Germany
	The debates
	Work and workers\' cultures
	Women and gender
	Politics, agency and everyday life
Afterthoughts
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	III
	IV
Index