The European Dictatorships: Hitler, Stalin,

This book is one of the theme texts in the Cambridge Perspectives in History series. Allan Todd provides a lucid and succinct account of the rise to power of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, and assesses the impact that they had on the states they governed. The European Dictatorships is illustrated and includes a selection of primary sources.

Dictatorships: ideologies and totalitarianism

1

(13)

Ideological terms

1

(1)

Communism

2

(5)

Fascism

7

(4)

Fascism and Nazism

11

(1)

Dictatorships: authoritarian or totalitarian?

12

(2)

From Leninism to Stalinism, 1918--28

14

(46)

The impact of the First World War, 1914--17

14

(3)

Why the Bolsheviks succeeded in establishing power, 1917--18

17

(5)

Civil war and foreign intervention, 1918--21

22

(7)

The revolutionary state, 1921--24

29

(15)

The rise of Stalin, 1924--28

44

(16)

Document case study

57

(3)

Stalin's `revolution from above', 1928--41

60

(24)

Stalin's `turn to the left' and the abandonment of the NEP

60

(4)

Collectivisation and the five-year plans

64

(4)

How successful were Stalin's economic policies?

68

(3)

Soviet foreign policy under Stalin

71

(5)

The Soviet state at war, 1941--45

76

(6)

The immediate consequences of the Great Patriotic War

82

(2)

The Stalinist state, 1929--39

84

(14)

Stalin's insecurities, 1930--34

84

(2)

The Great Purge

86

(4)

Power and the Stalinist state

90

(2)

The impact of the Great purge

92

(1)

Explaining the Great Purge and the Great Terror

92

(3)

The Stalinist state after the Great Patriotic War

95

(3)

The rise of Italian Fascism, 1918--24

98

(17)

The impact of the First World War and the peace treaties, 1914--19

98

(2)

The rise of Fascism, 1919--22

100

(9)

Mussolini's consolidation of power, 1922--23

109

(6)

Document case study

113

(2)

The Fascist state, 1925--45

115

(24)

The establishment of the dictatorship, 1925--28

115

(2)

The corporate state

117

(2)

Economic policy

119

(3)

The social impact of Fascism

122

(4)

Ducismo: the cult of II Duce and propaganda

126

(4)

Fascism and foreign policy

130

(4)

The impact of the Second World War, 1940--45

134

(5)

Weimar Germany and the rise of Nazism, 1919--33

139

(17)

Germany's problems, 1918--20

139

(3)

Hitler and the Nazi Party, 1918--24

142

(3)

The Nazis' `lean years', 1924--28

145

(3)

The collapse of Weimar Germany, 1929--33

148

(8)

The Nazi `revolution', 1933--39

156

(36)

Economic policy

156

(6)

The social impact of Nazism

162

(1)

The social classes

162

(4)

Volksgemeinschaft

166

(11)

Propaganda and the `Hitler myth'

177

(3)

Foreign policy and war

180

(1)

The `revisionist' phase, 1933--36

180

(4)

The pre-war crises, 1938--39

184

(1)

The Nazi state at war, 1939--45

185

(2)

The historical debate

187

(5)

Document case study

189

(3)

Consolidating and maintaining the Nazi dictatorship, 1933--39

192

(18)

Creating the Nazi dictatorship

192

(2)

Gleichschaltung

194

(3)

The Nazi state

197

(2)

Power in Nazi Germany

199

(5)

Support for Hitler and the Nazis

204

(1)

Opposition to the Nazis

205

(5)

Comparisons and contrasts

210

(15)

Leninism and Stalinism

210

(2)

Fascism and Nazism

212

(2)

Fascism and communism

214

(5)

Problems with totalitarianism and fascism

219

(2)

Comparative themes

221

(4)

Selected bibliography

225

(2)

Chronology

227

(6)

Index

233

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