Hitler and Stalin Parallel Lives

Name: Hitler and Stalin Parallel Lives
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ISBN: 9780679729945

ISBN-10: 0679729941

ISBN-13: 9780679729945

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Authors: Alan Bullock

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Forty years after his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the Nazi era, Lord Alan Bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished dual biography that places Adolf Hitler's origins, personality, career, and legacy alongside those of Joseph Stalin--his implacable antagonist and moral mirror image.

Book details

List price: $27.50
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/2/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1152
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.97" long x 2.31" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

A fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, and a former administrator of the university, Alan Bullock established himself as a historian with the publication of his biography of Adolf Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952). Although he had the advantage of being the first person to write a scholarly study of the German leader, his work remains one of the best, if not the best, biography of the dominant political personality of the first half of the twentieth century. Bullock also produced a major work in British history, The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin (1960-1983), a three-volume biography of the British transport-union leader and foreign secretary. He also has written a number…



Acknowledgments


Note to the Reader


Introduction



Origins


Stalin: 1879-1899, birth to age 19


Hitler: 1889-1908, birth to age 19



Experience


Stalin: 1899-1917, age 19-37


Hitler: 1908-1918, age 19-29



October Revolution, November Putsch


Stalin: 1917-1918, age 37-38


Hitler: 1918-1923, age 29-34



The General Secretary


Stalin: 1918-1924, age 38-44



The Creation of the Nazi Party


Hitler: 1924-1930, age 35-41



Lenin's Successor


Stalin: 1924-1929, age 44-50



Hitler Within Sight of Power


Hitler: 1930-1933, age 41-43



Stalin's Revolution


Stalin: 1928-1934, age 48-55



Hitler's Revolution


Hitler: 1933-1934, age 43-45



Stalin and Hitler Compared


Hitler and Stalin: late 1934



The Fuhrer State


Hitler: 1934-1938, age 45-49



The Revolution, Like Saturn, Devours Its Children


Stalin: 1934-1939, age 54-59



1918 Revoked


Hitler and Stalin: 1934-1938


Hitler: age 44-49, Stalin: age 54-59



The Nazi-Soviet Pact


Hitler and Stalin: March 1938-August 1939


Hitler: age 48-50, Stalin: age 58-59



Hitler's War


Hitler and Stalin: 1939-1941


Hitler: age 50-52, Stalin: age 59-62



Hitler's New Order


Hitler and Stalin: 1939-1942


Hitler: age 50-53, Stalin: age 59-63



Stalin's War


Hitler and Stalin: 1943-1944


Hitler: age 53-55, sTALIN: age 63-65



Hitler's Defeat


Hitler and Stalin: 1944-1945


Hitler: age 55-56, Stalin: age 64-65



Stalin's New Order


Stalin: 1945-1953, age 65-73



Perspective


1930-1990


Appendices


Notes


Abbreviations and Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Index