Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe - Hardcover

Gellately, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400040051 ISBN 13: 9781400040056

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf, 2007

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Book by Gellately Robert

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This ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945--a period of almost continuous upheaval, with two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich. Historian Gellately argues that these tragedies are inextricably linked and that to consider them as discrete events is to misunderstand their genesis and character. Central to the catastrophe, of course, were Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, and this book makes use of recently opened sources to explain how these dictators' pursuit of utopian--and dreadfully flawed--ideals led only to dystopian nightmare. Gellately argues that most comparative studies of the Soviet and Nazi dictatorships are undermined by neglecting the key importance of Lenin. Rejecting the myth of the "good" Lenin, the book provides a convincing social-historical account of all three dictatorships.--From publisher description.

Biografía del autor:

Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University and was the Bertelsmann Visiting Professor of Twentieth-Century Jewish Politics and History at Oxford University in 2004–05. He is the author of The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933–1945 and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1400040051
• ISBN 13: 9781400040056
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 696