Beyond totalitarianism
Subtitle: Stalinism and Nazism compared
By: [edited by] Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick.
Contributors: Fitzpatrick, Sheila.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780521897969; 9780521723978
Subjects: Totalitarianism; Soviet Union -- Politics and government; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
Description: "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of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality.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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: beyond totalitarianism : Stalinism and Nazism compared / Michael Geyer with Sheila Fitzpatrick; title: Governance; title: The political (dis)orders of Stalinism and National Socialism / Yoram Gorlizki and Hans Mommsen; title: Utopian biopolitics: reproductive policies, gender roles, and sexuality in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union / David L. Hoffmann and Annette F. Timm; title: Violence; title: State violence : violent societies / Christian Gerlach and Nicolas Werth; title: 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; title: Socialization; title: Frameworks for social engineering: Stalinist schema of identification and the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft / Christopher Browning and Lewis Siegelbaum; title: Energizing the everyday: on the breaking and making of social bonds in Nazism and Stalinism / Sheila Fitzpatrick and Alf Lüdtke; title: The new man in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany / Peter Fritzsche and Jochen Hellbeck; title: Entanglements; title: States of exception: the Nazi-Soviet war as a system of violence, 1939; title: 1945 / Mark Edele and Michael Geyer; title: 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.