Stalinism and Nazism
Subtitle: Dictatorships in Comparison
Contributors: Ian Kershaw (Editor); Moshe Lewin (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780521563451
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; 20th century; History - General History; Systems Of Government; Totalitarianism; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Europe; Political Process - Leadership; Europe - General; History & Theory - Radical Thought; History / Europe / General; Totalitarianism--Congresses; Congresses; 1933-1945; Germany; Politics and government; Soviet Union
First sentence: The paradox of the October Revolution was that the Bolsheviks possessed the physical power to overthrow the Provisional Government and disband the Constituent Assembly but did not yet have either a popular mandate to rule all of Russia (let alone the non-Russian peripheries) or an unassailable legitimising myth to sanction their claim to govern.