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The Dictators Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia

Richard Overy

How did Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia work as societies, and how far did ordinary people accept and help the regimes?

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Author
Richard Overy

Why read it

  • You will see why a dictatorship is more than one tyrant, because it depends on many people who go along
  • You will be able to compare how two regimes built leader cults, party control and terror
  • You will learn how the two systems ran their economies and prepared for total war

Who it is for

  • A reader who thinks of dictators as lone monsters
  • A student comparing Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
  • A manager curious why whole groups go along with bad orders

Contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Front Page
  3. NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction - Comparing Dictatorships
  6. 1 - Stalin and Hitler: Paths to Dictatorship
  7. 2 - The Art of Ruling
  8. 3 - Cults of Personality
  9. 4 - The Party State
  10. 5 - States of Terror
  11. 6 - Constructing Utopia
  12. 7 - The Moral Universe of Dictatorship
  13. 8 - Friend and Foe: Popular Responses to Dictatorship
  14. 9 - Cultural Revolutions
  15. 10 - Commanding the Economy
  16. 11 - Military Superpowers
  17. 12 - Total War
  18. 13 - Nations and Races
  19. 14 - Empire of the Camps
  20. CONCLUSION - Two Dictatorships

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