LEADER 04460cam a2200469 a 4500001 137786 005 20240621204059.0 008 070205s2007 nyuabf b 001 0 eng 010 2007005272 020 9781400040056 020 1400040051 035 (OCoLC)ocm82287392 035 137786 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBAKER |dBTCTA |dIEF |dC#P |dBUR |dYDXCP |dIXA |dOMP |dVP@ |dYBM |dNLGGC |dLHM 050 00 JC495 |b.G45 2007 100 1 Gellately, Robert, |d1943- 245 10 Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler : |bthe age of social catastrophe / |cRobert Gellately. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York : |bAlfred A. Knopf, |c2007. 300 xv, 696 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-670) and index. 505 0 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. 520 This ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945--a period of almost continuous upheaval, with two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich. Historian Gellately argues that these tragedies are inextricably linked and that to consider them as discrete events is to misunderstand their genesis and character. Central to the catastrophe, of course, were Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, and this book makes use of recently opened sources to explain how these dictators' pursuit of utopian--and dreadfully flawed--ideals led only to dystopian nightmare. Gellately argues that most comparative studies of the Soviet and Nazi dictatorships are undermined by neglecting the key importance of Lenin. Rejecting the myth of the "good" Lenin, the book provides a convincing social-historical account of all three dictatorships.--From publisher description. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Dictatorship |xHistory |y21st century. 650 0 Dictatorship |vCase studies. 600 10 Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, |d1870-1924. 600 10 Stalin, Joseph, |d1878-1953. 600 10 Hitler, Adolf, |d1889-1945. 651 0 Soviet Union |xPolitics and government |y1917-1936. 651 0 Soviet Union |xPolitics and government |y1936-1953. 651 0 Germany |xPolitics and government |y1933-1945. 655 7 Case studies. |2lcgft 856 42 |3Table of contents only |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005272.html 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007005272-b.html 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007005272-d.html 856 42 |3Sample text |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007005272-s.html 852 0 |bstacks |hJC495 |i.G45 2007