The European Dictatorships: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini

by Allan Todd

• ISBN13: 9780521776059
• ISBN10: 0521776058
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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