Beyond totalitarianism : Stalinism and Nazism compared / [edited by] Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geyer, Michael, 1947- editor.

Fitzpatrick, Sheila, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Totalitarianism.

Soviet Union--Politics and government.

Soviet Union.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 536 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the historicity of the two extraordinary regimes and the wreckage they have left. With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, scholars of Europe are no longer burdened with the political baggage that constricted research and conditioned interpretation and have access to hitherto closed archives. The time is right for a fresh look at the two gigantic dictatorships of the twentieth century and for a return to the original intent of thought on totalitarian regimes - understanding the intertwined trajectories of socialism and nationalism in European and global history.

Contents:

Introduction: after totalitarianism : Stalinism and Nazism compared / Michael Geyer with assistance from Sheila Fitzpatrick

Governance

The political (dis)orders of Stalinism and National Socialism / Yoram Gorlizki and Hans Mommsen

Utopian biopolitics: reproductive policies, gender roles, and sexuality in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union / David L. Hoffmann and Annette F. Timm

Violence

State violence : violent societies / Christian Gerlach and Nicolas Werth

The quest for order and the pursuit of terror: National Socialist Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union as multi-ethnic empires / Jörg Baberowski and Anselm Doering-Manteuffel

Socialization

Frameworks for social engineering: Stalinist schema of identification and the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft / Christopher R. Browning and Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Energizing the everyday: on the breaking and making of social bonds in Nazism and Stalinism / Sheila Fitzpatrick and Alf Lüdtke

The new man in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany / Peter Fritzsche and Jochen Hellbeck

Entanglements

States of exception: the Nazi-Soviet war as a system of violence, 1939

1945 / Mark Edele and Michael Geyer

Mutual perceptions and projections: Stalin's Russia in Nazi Germany: Nazi Germany in Stalin's Russia : Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union / Katerina Clark and Karl Schlögel.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-516) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20198-5

1-316-09977-6

1-281-98250-4

9786611982508

0-511-80265-X

0-511-46434-7

0-511-46276-X

0-511-46508-4

0-511-46201-8

0-511-46355-3

9780511802652 (electronic book)

OCLC:

314428030