Beyond Totalitarianism Stalinism and Nazism Compared

Name: Beyond Totalitarianism Stalinism and Nazism Compared
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ISBN: 9780521723978

ISBN-10: 0521723973

ISBN-13: 9780521723978

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick

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In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the historicity of the two extraordinary regimes and the wreckage they have left. With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, scholars of Europe are no longer burdened with the political baggage that constricted research and conditioned interpretation and have access to hitherto closed…

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.17" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



List of Contributors


Acknowledgments



Introduction: After Totalitarianism - Stalinism and Nazism Compared




Governance



The Political (Dis)Orders of Stalinism and National Socialism




Utopian Biopolitics: Reproductive Policies, Gender Roles, and Sexuality in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union




Violence



State Violence - Violent Societies




The Quest for Order and the Pursuit of Terror: National Socialist Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union as Multiethnic Empires




Socialization



Frameworks for Social Engineering: Stalinist Schema of Identification and the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft




Energizing the Everyday: On the Breaking and Making of Social Bonds in Nazism and Stalinism




The New Man in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany




Entanglements



States of Exception: The Nazi-Soviet War as a System of Violence, 1939-1945




Mutual Perceptions and Projections: Stalin's Russia in Nazi Germany - Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union



Works Cited


Index