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The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
Contemporary Review, Jan, 2005
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. Richard Overy. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]25.00. xl + 849 pages. ISBN 0-713-99309-X. Parallel biographies are not new but parallel histories of dictatorships are. This brilliant and thought-provoking study is intended to help in understanding 'the differing historical processes and states of mind that led both these dictatorships to murder on such a colossal scale'.
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It is an exercise in 'historical comparison'. It emphasises the historical background and the two men's own words and the views behind them. Both were products of the Great War although their ideologies were opposed. Both systems, however, were anti-liberal and anti-Christian and were united by a form of schizophrenia, the 'unresolved and permanent gap between ideal and reality'. Where they were virtually the same was in their 'political and social strategies and common patterns of authority, participation and popular response'. In these they were forerunners of all dictatorships since then, wherever they are. (J.R.C.)
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