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| Abbreviations and Glossary | |
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| Note on Russian Spelling and Dates | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lenin's Communist Dictatorship | |
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| The First World War and the Russian Revolution | |
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| On the Way to Communist Dictatorship | |
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| Civil Wars in the Soviet Union | |
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| The Rise of German National Socialism | |
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| Nazism and the Threat of Bolshevism | |
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| First Nazi Attempt to Seize Power | |
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| Hitler Starts Over | |
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| Stalin Triumphs over Political Rivals | |
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| Battle for Communist Utopia | |
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| Lenin's Passing, Stalin's Victory | |
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| Stalin's New Initiatives | |
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| Stalin Solidifies His Grip | |
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| Germans Make a Pact with Hitler | |
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| Nazi Party as Social Movement | |
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| Nazism Exploits Economic Distress | |
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| "All Power" for Hitler | |
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| Stalin's Reign of Terror | |
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| Fight Against the Countryside | |
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| Terror as Political Practice | |
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| "Mass Operations" | |
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| "Cleansing" the Soviet Elite | |
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| Hitler's War Against Democracy | |
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| Winning Over the Nation | |
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| Dictatorship by Consent | |
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| Persecution of the Jews in the Prewar Years | |
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| "Cleansing" the German Body Politic | |
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| Stalin and Hitler: Into the Social Catastrophe | |
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| Rival Visions of World Conquest | |
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| German Racial Persecution Begins in Poland | |
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| Hitler and Western Europe | |
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| The Soviet Response | |
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| The War Spreads | |
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| Hitler's War on "Jewish Bolshevism" | |
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| War of Extermination as Nazi Crusade | |
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| War Against the Communists: Operation Barbarossa | |
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| War Against the Jews: Death Squads in the East | |
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| The "Final Solution" and Death Camps | |
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| Hitler's Defeat and Stalin's Agenda | |
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| Greatest Crisis in Stalin's Career | |
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| Between Surrender and Defiance | |
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| Soviets Hold On, Hitler Grows Vicious | |
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| Ethnic Cleansing in Wartime Soviet Union | |
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| Final Struggle | |
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| From Stalingrad to Berlin | |
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| Stalin Takes the Upper Hand | |
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| End of the Third Reich | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |
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| Photographic Credits | |