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Author:   Robert Gellately
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Random House USA Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 20.20cm
Weight:   0.601kg
ISBN:  

9781400032136

ISBN 10:   140003213
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   12 August 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations and Glossary Note on Russian Spelling and Dates Maps Introduction PART ONE: LENIN’S COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP 1 The First World War and the Russian Revolution 2 On the Way to Communist Dictatorship 3 Civil Wars in the Soviet Union PART TWO: THE RISE OF GERMAN NATIONAL SOCIALISM 4 Nazism and the Threat of Bolshevism 5 First Nazi Attempt to Seize Power 6 Hitler Starts Over PART THREE: STALIN TRIUMPHS OVER POLITICAL RIVALS 7 Battle for Communist Utopia 8 Lenin’s Passing, Stalin’s Victory 9 Stalin’s New Initiatives 10 Stalin Solidifies His Grip PART FOUR: GERMANS MAKE A PACT WITH HITLER 11 Nazi Party as Social Movement 12 Nazism Exploits Economic Distress 13 “All Power” for Hitler PART FIVE: STALIN’S REIGN OF TERROR 14 Fight Against the Countryside 15 Terror as Political Practice 16 “Mass Operations” 17 “Cleansing” the Soviet Elite PART SIX: HITLER’S WAR AGAINST DEMOCRACY 18 Winning Over the Nation 285 19 Dictatorship by Consent 298 20 Persecution of the Jews in the Prewar Years 315 21 “Cleansing” the German Body Politic 331 PART SEVEN: STALIN AND HITLER: INTO THE SOCIAL CATASTROPHE 22 Rival Visions of World Conquest 23 German Racial Persecution Begins in Poland 24 Hitler and Western Europe 25 The Soviet Response 26 The War Spreads PART EIGHT: HITLER’S WAR ON “JEWISH BOLSHEVISM” 27 War of Extermination as Nazi Crusade 28 War Against the Communists: Operation Barbarossa 29 War Against the Jews: Death Squads in the East 30 The “Final Solution” and Death Camps PART NINE: HITLER’S DEFEAT AND STALIN’S AGENDA 31 Greatest Crisis in Stalin’s Career 32 Between Surrender and Defiance 33 Soviets Hold On, Hitler Grows Vicious 34 Ethnic Cleansing in Wartime Soviet Union PART TEN: FINAL STRUGGLE 35 From Stalingrad to Berlin 36 Stalin Takes the Upper Hand 37 End of the Third Reich Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index Photographic Credits

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Sophisticated . . . scholarly and very readable. . . . [Gellately] rips up the accepted versions of this terrible period and analyzes it on the evidence that we now have. <br>--Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Washington Post Book World <br> Mr. Gellately sets a high standard for anyone writing about comparative dictatorship. . . . Lucid prose and vivid examples make the book admirably accessible to non-specialists. -- The Economist <br> Intriguing. . . . An excellent overview of Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism. . . . Gellately performs a very useful public service. <br>-- The New York Sun <br> Clearly written and massive documented. . . . the full story has finally been told. <br>-- The Buffalo News

Author Information

Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University and recently was the Bertelsmann Visiting Professor of Twentieth Century Jewish Politics and History at Oxford University. He is the author of The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933—1945 and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

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