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Informationen zum Autor Robert Gellately Klappentext A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War. In Lenin! Stalin! and Hitler! acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time! the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany! but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political and ideological nature. Arguing that the tragedies endured by Europe were inextricably linked through the dictatorships of Lenin! Stalin! and Hitler! Gellately explains how the pursuit of their "utopian” ideals turned into dystopian nightmares. Dismantling the myth of Lenin as a relatively benevolent precursor to Hitler and Stalin and contrasting the divergent ways that Hitler and Stalin achieved their calamitous goals! Gellately creates in Lenin! Stalin! and Hitler a vital analysis of a critical period in modern history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
