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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Klas-Göran Karlsson; Johan Stenfeldt and Ulf Zander - Contributions by Nanci Adler; Johan Dietsch; John Paul Himka; Klas-Göran Karlsson; Maria Karlsson; Jörn Rüsen; Johan Stenfeldt; Anton Weiss-Wendt and Ulf Zander Klappentext The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena, can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to each other? Do they belong to the same historical contexts? Have they influenced, reacted to or learned from each other? Are they interpreted, represented and used together by posterity? The background of the book is twofold. One is external. There is an ongoing debate about the historical entanglements of Communism and Nazism, especially about Auschwitz and Gulag, respectively. Our present fascination with the evil history of genocide has situated the Holocaust as the borderline event in Western historical thinking. The crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Soviet Communist regime do not have the same position but are considered more urgent in the East and Central European states that were subdued by both Nazi and Communist regimes. The other, internal background is to develop an analytical perspective in which the comnaz nexus can be understood. Using a complex approach, the authors investigate Communist and Nazi histories as entangled phenomena, guided by three basic perspectives. Focusing on roots and developments, a genetic perspective highlights historical, process-oriented connections. A structural perspective indicates an attempt to narrow down operational parallels of the two political systems in the way they handled ideology to construct social utopia, used techniques of terror, etc. A third perspective is genealogical, emphasizing the processing and use of Communist and Nazi history by posterity in terms of meaning and memory: What past is worth remembering, celebrating, debating but also distorting and forgetting? The chapters of the book address phenomena such as ideology, terror, secular religion, museum exhibits, and denial." Zusammenfassung This collection explores the questions of whether! how! and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism could and should be situated within a single coherent narrative. The contributors examine ideology! terror! secular religion! museum exhibits! and denial in order to critically analyze these complex! entangled historical phenomena. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Klas-Göran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, and Ulf ZanderChapter One: The Evil Twins of Modern History?: Patterns of Communism-National Socialism Entanglement, Klas-Göran KarlssonChapter Two: Making Sense of Inhumanity: On the Treatment of an Open Wound in Our History Culture, Jörn RüsenChapter Three: The Dystopian Trilemma: The Guiding Potential of the Nazi-Communist Equalization and Strategies Used When Questioning It, Johan StenfeldtChapter Four: The Intertwined History of Political Violence in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany: The Case Study of Helmut Weiss, Anton Weiss-WendtChapter Five: Herbert Norkus and Pavel Morozov as Totalitarian Child Martyrs: A Study of Political Religion, Johan DietschChapter Six: Communism's Compelling Grasp: Enduring the Gulag and Enduring Loyalty, Nanci AdlerChapter Seven: The Lontsky Street Prison Memorial Museum: An Example of Postcommunist Holocaust Negationism, John-Paul HimkaChapter Eight: Writing History, Denying the Past?: On Revisionism, the Holocaust and Soviet Terror, Maria Karlsson...
