Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared

by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Michael Geyer

Book Overview

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of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality.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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521723973
• ISBN13: 9780521723978
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"