Perspectives on the entangled history of communism and Nazism
Subtitle: a comnaz analysis
By: edited by Klas-Göran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, and Ulf Zander
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781498518703; 9781498518710
Subjects: Politics and government; Totalitarianism; Communism; National socialism
Description: "This collection explores the questions of whether, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism could and should be situated within a single coherent narrative. The contributors examine ideology, terror, secular religion, museum exhibits, and denial in order to critically analyze these complex, entangled historical phenomena"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Klas-Göran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, and Ulf Zander; title: The evil twins of modern history? : patterns of communism-National Socialism entanglement / Klas-Göran Karlsson; title: Making sense of inhumanity : on the treatment of an open wound in our history culture / Jörn Rüsen; title: The dystopian trilemma : the guiding potential of the Nazi-communist equalization and strategies used when questioning it / Johan Stenfeldt; title: The intertwined history of political violence in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany : the case study of Helmut Weiss / Anton Weiss-Wendt; title: Herbert Norkus and Pavel Morozov as totalitarian child martyrs : a study of political religion / Johan Dietsch; title: Communism's compelling grasp : enduring the gulag and enduring loyalty / Nanci Adler; title: The Lontsky Street Prison Memorial Museum : an example of postcommunist holocaust negationism / John-Paul Himka; title: Writing history, denying the past? : on revisionism, the holocaust and soviet terror / Maria Karlsson.