Hitler and Stalin Parallel Lives

by BULLOCK, ALAN

• ISBN13: 9780679729945
• ISBN10: 0679729941
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-02
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

Forty years after his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the Nazi era, Lord Alan Bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished dual biography that places Adolf Hitler's origins, personality, career, and legacy alongside those of Joseph Stalin--his implacable antagonist and moral mirror image.

Author Biography

Alan Bullock was knighted in 1972, becoming Sir Alan Bullock and in 1976 was made a life peer as Baron Bullock, of Leafield in the County of Oxfordshire. Born in 1914, he studied at Oxford University and served as a research assistant to Winston Churchill while the prime minister was writing his A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Bullock was a history fellow at New College, Oxford and helped found St Catherine's College, Oxford. He is best known for his book Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952) which was the first comprehensive biography of Adolf Hitler and influenced many other major biographies of Hitler. Bullock died in 2004.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction
Origins	p. 3
Stalin: 1879-1899, birth to age 19
Hitler: 1889-1908, birth to age 19
Experience	p. 18
Stalin: 1899-1917, age 19-37
Hitler: 1908-1918, age 19-29
October Revolution, November Putsch	p. 49
Stalin: 1917-1918, age 37-38
Hitler: 1918-1923, age 29-34
The General Secretary	p. 92
Stalin: 1918-1924, age 38-44
The Creation of the Nazi Party	p. 135
Hitler: 1924-1930, age 35-41
Lenin's Successor	p. 174
Stalin: 1924-1929, age 44-50
Hitler Within Sight of Power	p. 216
Hitler: 1930-1933, age 41-43
Stalin's Revolution	p. 256
Stalin: 1928-1934, age 48-55
Hitler's Revolution	p. 306
Hitler: 1933-1934, age 43-45
Stalin and Hitler Compared	p. 347
Hitler and Stalin: late 1934
The Fuhrer State	p. 423
Hitler: 1934-1938, age 45-49
The Revolution, Like Saturn, Devours Its Children	p. 461
Stalin: 1934-1939, age 54-59
1918 Revoked	p. 517
Hitler and Stalin: 1934-1938
Hitler: age 44-49, Stalin: age 54-59
The Nazi-Soviet Pact	p. 564
Hitler and Stalin: March 1938-August 1939
Hitler: age 48-50, Stalin: age 58-59
Hitler's War	p. 632
Hitler and Stalin: 1939-1941
Hitler: age 50-52, Stalin: age 59-62
Hitler's New Order	p. 693
Hitler and Stalin: 1939-1942
Hitler: age 50-53, Stalin: age 59-63
Stalin's War	p. 784
Hitler and Stalin: 1943-1944
Hitler: age 53-55, sTALIN: age 63-65
Hitler's Defeat	p. 846
Hitler and Stalin: 1944-1945
Hitler: age 55-56, Stalin: age 64-65
Stalin's New Order	p. 894
Stalin: 1945-1953, age 65-73
Perspective	p. 970
1930-1990
Appendices	p. 981
Notes	p. 993
Abbreviations and Glossary	p. 1027
Selected Bibliography	p. 1035
Index	p. 1059
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