Physical Description
xv, 696 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
1: Lenin's communist dictatorship
The first world war and the Russian revolution
On the way to communist dictatorship
Civil wars in the Soviet Union
2: The rise of German national Socialism
Nazism and the threat of Bolshevism
First Nazi attempt to seize power
Hitler starts over
3: Stalin triumphs over political rivals
Battle for Communist Utopia
Lenin's passing, Stalin's victory
Stalin's new initiatives
Stalin solidifies his grip
4: Germans make a pact with Hitler
Nazi party as social movement
Nazism exploits economic distress
"All power" for Hitler
5: Stalin's reign of terror
Fight against the countryside
Terror as political practice
"Mass operations"
"Cleansing" the Soviet elite
6: Hitler's war against democracy
Winning over the nation
Dictatorship by consent
Persecution of the Jews in the prewar years
"Cleansing" the German body politic
7: Stalin and Hitler: into the social catastrophe
Rival visions of world conquest
German racial persecution begins in Poland
Hitler and Western Europe
The Society response
The war spreads
8: Hitler's war on "Jewish Bolshevism"
War of extermination as Nazi crusade
War against the Communists: operation Barbarossa
War against the Jews: death squads in the East
The "final solution" and death camps
9: Hitler's defeat and Stalin's agenda
Greatest crisis in Stalin's career
Between surrender and defiance
Soviets hold on, Hitler grows viscous
Ethnic cleansing in wartime Soviet Union.
ISBN
9781400040056
1400040051
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 595-670) and index.
1: Lenin's communist dictatorship -- The first world war and the Russian revolution -- On the way to communist dictatorship -- Civil wars in the Soviet Union -- 2: The rise of German national Socialism -- Nazism and the threat of Bolshevism -- First Nazi attempt to seize power -- Hitler starts over -- 3: Stalin triumphs over political rivals -- Battle for Communist Utopia -- Lenin's passing, Stalin's victory -- Stalin's new initiatives -- Stalin solidifies his grip -- 4: Germans make a pact with Hitler -- Nazi party as social movement -- Nazism exploits economic distress -- "All power" for Hitler -- 5: Stalin's reign of terror -- Fight against the countryside -- Terror as political practice -- "Mass operations" -- "Cleansing" the Soviet elite -- 6: Hitler's war against democracy -- Winning over the nation -- Dictatorship by consent -- Persecution of the Jews in the prewar years -- "Cleansing" the German body politic -- 7: Stalin and Hitler: into the social catastrophe -- Rival visions of world conquest -- German racial persecution begins in Poland -- Hitler and Western Europe -- The Society response -- The war spreads -- 8: Hitler's war on "Jewish Bolshevism" -- War of extermination as Nazi crusade -- War against the Communists: operation Barbarossa -- War against the Jews: death squads in the East -- The "final solution" and death camps -- 9: Hitler's defeat and Stalin's agenda -- Greatest crisis in Stalin's career -- Between surrender and defiance -- Soviets hold on, Hitler grows viscous -- Ethnic cleansing in wartime Soviet Union.
