The lesser evil : moral approaches to genocide practices / editors, Helmut Dubiel and Gabriel Motzkin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nazism-communism : delineating the comparison / Martin Malia -- The uses and abuses of comparison / Tzvetan Todorov -- Worstward ho : on comparing totalitarianisms / Irving Wohlfarth -- Imagining the absolute : mapping Western conceptions of evil / Steven E. Aschheim -- Remembrance and knowledge : nationalism and Stalinism in comparative discourse / Dan Diner -- Comparative evil : degrees, numbers and the problem of measure / Berel Lang -- The institutional frame : totalitarianism, extermination and the state / Sigrid Meuschel -- Asian communist regimes : the other experience of the extreme / Jean-Louis Margolin -- A lesser evil? : Italian fascism in/and the totalitarian equation / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- On the moral blindness of communism / Steven Lukes -- Totalitarian attempts, anti-totalitarian networks : thoughts on the taboo of comparison / Ulrike Ackermann -- If Hitler invaded hell : distinguishing between Nazism and communism during World War II, the Cold War and since the fall of European communism / Jeffrey Herf -- The memory of crime and the formation of indentity / Gabriel Motzkin -- Mirror-writing of a good life? / Helmut Dubiel.