TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gellately,Robert
TI  - Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: the age of social catastrophe
SN  - 9780224062831
U1  - 947.084 22 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
KW  - Stalin, Joseph
KW  - Hitler, Adolf
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1917-1936
KW  - 1936-1953
KW  - Germany
KW  - 1933-1945
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 595-670) and index
N2  - This ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945--a period of almost continuous upheaval, with two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich. Historian Gellately argues that these tragedies are inextricably linked and that to consider them as discrete events is to misunderstand their genesis and character. Central to the catastrophe, of course, were Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, and this book makes use of recently opened sources to explain how these dictators' pursuit of utopian--and dreadfully flawed--ideals led only to dystopian nightmare. Gellately argues that most comparative studies of the Soviet and Nazi dictatorships are undermined by neglecting the key importance of Lenin. Rejecting the myth of the "good" Lenin, the book provides a convincing social-historical account of all three dictatorships.--From publisher description
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