Stalinism and nazism : history and memory compared / edited by Henry Rousso ; English-language edition edited and introduced by Richard J. Golsan ; translated by Lucy B. Golsan, Thomas C. Hilde, and Peter S. Rogers.

Papers presented at a conference held Jan. 31, 1997 in Paris organized by the Institute for Contemporary History.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the legitimacy of an empirical comparison / Henry Rousso -- Presentation / Philippe Burrin, Nicolas Werth -- Stalin's system during the 1930s / Nicolas Werth -- Charisma and radicalism in the Nazi regime / Philippe Burrin -- Strategies of violence in the Stalinist USSR / Nicolas Werth -- Congenital violence of Nazism / Philippe Burrin -- Forms of autonomy in "Socialist society" / Nicolas Werth -- Nazi regime and German society : the prisms of acceptance / Philippe Burrin -- Fascism and communism in Romania : the comparative stakes and uses / Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine -- Historians and the political stakes of the past in Hungary / Paul Gradvohl -- Managing the past in Bulgaria / Francois Frison-Roche -- Nazism and communism in Polish experience and memory / Andrzej Paczkowski -- Archive's revolution and the rewriting of history : East Germany / Étienne Francois -- Beyond history and memory / Pierre Hassner -- Postscript on the ideas of totalitarianism and of the "Communist regime" / Krzysztof Pomian.