Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The regimes and their dictators: perspectives of comparison
- 1 Stalin and his Stalinism: power and authority in the Soviet Union, 1930–53
- 2 Bureaucracy and the Stalinist state
- 3 Cumulative radicalisation and progressive self-destruction as structural determinants of the Nazi dictatorship
- 4 ‘Working towards the Führer’: reflections on the nature of the Hitler dictatorship
- 5 Stalin in the mirror of the other
- 6 The contradictions of continuous revolution
- 7 From Blitzkrieg to total war: controversial links between image and reality
- 8 Stalin, the Red Army, and the ‘Great Patriotic War’
- 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
- 12 Stalinism and the politics of post-Soviet history
- 13 Work, gender and everyday life: reflections on continuity, normality and agency in twentieth-century Germany
- Afterthoughts
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The regimes and their dictators: perspectives of comparison
- 1 Stalin and his Stalinism: power and authority in the Soviet Union, 1930–53
- 2 Bureaucracy and the Stalinist state
- 3 Cumulative radicalisation and progressive self-destruction as structural determinants of the Nazi dictatorship
- 4 ‘Working towards the Führer’: reflections on the nature of the Hitler dictatorship
- 5 Stalin in the mirror of the other
- 6 The contradictions of continuous revolution
- 7 From Blitzkrieg to total war: controversial links between image and reality
- 8 Stalin, the Red Army, and the ‘Great Patriotic War’
- 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
- 12 Stalinism and the politics of post-Soviet history
- 13 Work, gender and everyday life: reflections on continuity, normality and agency in twentieth-century Germany
- Afterthoughts
- Index
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- Stalinism and NazismDictatorships in Comparison, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997