In this first major study of the two dictatorships side-by-side Richard Overy sets out to answer the question: How was dictatorship possible? How did they function? What was the bond that tied dictator and people so powerfully together?
Overy gives readers an absorbing study of Hitler and Stalin, ranging from their private and public selves, their ascents to power and consolidation of absolute rule, to their waging of massive war and creation of far-flung empires of camps ...
17; J. Hughes 'Capturing the Russian Peasantry: Stalinist Grain Procurement Policy and the “UralsSiberian” Method', Slavic Review, 53 (1994), pp. 77–8. See too J. Hughes Stalin, Siberia and the crisis of the New Economic Policy ...
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
The ideological and practical conflicts between dictatorships and democracies are carefully laid out within the pages of this book.
Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal...
An absorbing study of Hitler and Stalin, ranging from their private and public selves, their ascents to power and consolidation of absolute rule, to their waging of massive war and creation of far- flung empires of camps and prisons.
In this first major study of the two dictatorships side-by-side Richard Overy sets out to answer the question: How was dictatorship possible? How did they function? What was the bond that tied dictator and people so powerfully together?
The ideological and practical conflicts between dictatorships and democracies are carefully laid out within the pages of this book.