Beyond Totalitarianism
Stalinism and Nazism Compared
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- Editors:
- Michael Geyer, University of Chicago
- Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago
- Date Published: February 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521723978
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In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the historicity of the two extraordinary regimes and the wreckage they have left. With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, scholars of Europe are no longer burdened with the political baggage that constricted research and conditioned interpretation and have access to hitherto closed archives. The time is right for a fresh look at the two gigantic dictatorships of the twentieth century and for a return to the original intent of thought on totalitarian regimes - understanding the intertwined trajectories of socialism and nationalism in European and global history.
Read more- Top scholars in two fields writing joint essays exploring the two most influential dictatorships of the twentieth century
- Draws on new scholarship and, on the Soviet side, new archival data available only since the collapse of the Soviet Union
- Provides an evaluation of Nazism in comparative perspective and establishes a new model for an interactive inquiry
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'… a valuable volume that illustrates well the strengths and the weaknesses of the comparative analysis of totalitarianism that is frequently found in contemporary area studies. The strengths are the diverse range of topics that are investigated in the individual chapters that make up the bulk of the book, where careful in-depth scholarship provides many revealing insights into the contingent expressions of both Nazism and Stalinism. … There is a very substantial 70-page bibliography at the end of the book that has been usefully subdivided by topic, which is nearly worth the price of the paperback edition alone.' Europe-Asia Studies
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- Date Published: February 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521723978
- length: 552 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 162 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.77kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: beyond totalitarianism - Stalinism and Nazism compared Michael Geyer with Sheila Fitzpatrick
2. The political (dis)orders of Stalinism and national socialism Yoram Gorlizki and Hans Mommsen
3. Utopian biopolitics: reproductive policies, gender roles, and sexuality in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union David L. Hoffman and Annette F. Timm
4. State violence - violent societies Christian Gerlach and Nicolas Werth
5. The quest for order and the pursuit of terror: National Socialist Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union as multi-ethnic empires Jorg Baberowski and Anselm Doering-Manteuffel
6. Frameworks for social engineering: Stalinist schema of identification and the Nazi volksgemeinschaft Christopher Browning and Lewis Siegelbaum
7. Energizing the everyday: on the breaking and making of social bonds in Nazism and Stalinism Shelia Fitzpatrick and Alf Ludtke
8. The new man in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany Peter Fritzsche and Jochen Hellbeck
9. States of exception: the Nazi-Soviet War as a system of violence, 1939–45 Mark Edele and Michale Geyer
10. Mutual perceptions and projections: Stalin's Russia in Nazi Germany: Nazi Germany in Stalin's Russia - Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union Katerina Clark and Karl Schloegel.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Age of European Fascism
- Comparative Totalitarianism
- Europe During the World Wars, 1914-1945
- Europe of Dictators
- Experience of WWll in Europe
- Fascism and Communism
- From Napoleon to Hitler
- Historical Perspectives on the Social Order ll
- Hitler/Stalin/Mussolini
- Honors Reading Colloquium: Totalitarianism
- Modern Dictatorships
- Nation, Race, and Violence in Central and Eastern Europe
- Problems in History
- Russia after 1917 Graduate Seminar
- Russia since 1855
- Russian Culture
- Science and the State
- Selected Topics in Comparative Politics: Totalitarianism: Nazism and Communism
- Seminar in Modern European History
- Soviet and Russian Politics
- Stalin and Hitler
- Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany
- Studies in Soviet History
- The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
- Totalitarian Temptation: Europe's 20th Century
- Totalitarianism and Terror in the Twentieth Century
- Twentieth Century Russia/USSR
- Utopian Philosophies - Fascism & Communism
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