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The dictators, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia, Richard Overy

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The dictators

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Richard Overy

"In the first full comparative history of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, Overy clearly conveys the workings of these two bloody regimes. His portraits of Hitler and Stalin take in their private and public selves, their ascents to power, and their consolidation of absolute rule. He shows us the use of terror in each system; the ways in which the party dominated politics, culture, and the economy in each; and how each waged total war. He details the creation of the Nazi extermination camps and the vast Soviet Gulag - the two dictatorships in their most inhuman forms."--Jacket

Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia

Stalin and Hitler : paths to dictatorship -- The art of ruling -- Cults of personality -- The party state -- States of terror -- Constructing utopia -- The moral universe of dictatorship -- Friend and foe : popular responses to dictatorship -- Cultural revolutions -- Commanding the economy -- Military superpowers -- Total war -- Nations and races -- Empire of the camps