The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's RussiaAn analytical study of the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin discusses their public images in comparison with their private personalities, their ascents to power, their creations of extermination camps and the Soviet Gulag, and the massive wars that marked their rules. 13,000 first printing. |
Contents
Stalin and Hitler Paths to Dictatorship | 1 |
The Art of Ruling | 54 |
Cults of Personality | 98 |
The Party State | 132 |
States of Terror | 176 |
Constructing Utopia | 218 |
The Moral Universe of Dictatorship | 265 |
Friend and Foe Popular Responses to Dictatorship | 304 |
Military Superpowers | 441 |
Total War | 483 |
Nations and Races | 540 |
Empire of the Camps | 593 |
Two Dictatorships | 635 |
Bibliography | 653 |
Notes | 705 |
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