Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

by Pauley, Bruce F.

• ISBN13: 9780882959931
• ISBN10: 088295993X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Harlan Davidson

Author Biography

Bruce F. Pauley is Professor of History at the University of Central Florida

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
List of Illustrations	xiii
Preface	xv
Preface to the First Edition	xix
The Ideological Foundations	1	(10)
Definitions of Totalitarianism	1	(3)
Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism	4	(2)
Fascism and Nazism	6	(5)
The Seizure of Power	11	(37)
Russia on the Eve of the Revolution	11	(4)
The Establishment of the Soviet Dictatorship	15	(6)
The Failure of Liberal Italy	21	(4)
The Birth and Triumph of Fascism	25	(6)
Germany and the Impact of World War I	31	(4)
The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Movement	35	(6)
The Great Depression and the Nazi Takeover	41	(7)
Personalities and Policies of the Dictators	48	(24)
Stalin's Youth and Early Career	48	(4)
Stalin the Demigod	52	(2)
Mussolini: The Young Socialist	54	(4)
The Duce: Strengths and Weaknesses	58	(3)
The Young Hitler	61	(4)
Hitler: The Chaotic Dictator	65	(3)
Hitler's Private Life and Relations with Women	68	(4)
Totalitarian Economies	72	(23)
The End of the New Economic Policy	72	(3)
Stalin's War against the Peasants	75	(6)
The First Five-Year Plan and Industrialization	81	(3)
The Fascist Economy	84	(4)
The Economy of National Socialist Germany	88	(7)
Propaganda, Culture, and Education	95	(30)
The Limitations of Propaganda	95	(2)
Soviet Propaganda	97	(3)
Fascist Propaganda	100	(2)
Nazi Propaganda	102	(4)
Totalitarian Culture	106	(8)
Soviet Education	114	(2)
Education in the Fascist States	116	(3)
Youth Groups	119	(6)
Family Values and Health	125	(26)
The Conservative Trend in Values	125	(2)
Soviet Women: The Mixed Blessings of Emancipation	127	(3)
Fascist Italy: The Failure of Antifeminism	130	(5)
Women in Nazi Germany: Kinder Kirche und Kuche?	135	(5)
Health and Eugenics in Nazi Germany	140	(4)
Religion: The Basic Incompatibility	144	(7)
Totalitarian Terror	151	(22)
The Great Purges in the Soviet Union	152	(8)
Terror and Persecution in the Fascist States	160	(2)
The Persecution of Jews	162	(11)
The Era of Traditional Diplomacy and War, 1933--1941	173	(33)
Hitler's Foreign Policy Strategy	174	(4)
Hitler as ``Peace Lover,'' 1933--1935	178	(2)
From Ethiopia to Spain: Fascist Italy at War	180	(5)
Austria and Czechoslovakia: Hitler's First Conquests	185	(5)
The Approach of War	190	(3)
The Blitzkrieg Campaigns	193	(6)
The Italian Intervention	199	(7)
Total War, 1941--1945	206	(36)
Hitler Turns East	206	(4)
Stalin's Preparations for War	210	(3)
The Russian Campaign in 1941	213	(3)
Hitler and the Untermenschen	216	(3)
Hitler and Stalin as War Lords	219	(7)
The Fall of Fascism	226	(4)
The German Home Front	230	(2)
The War in the West	232	(4)
The End of the Third Reich	236	(6)
The Collapse of Soviet Totalitarianism	242	(23)
Stalin's Last Years, 1945--1953	242	(4)
The Khrushchev Era	246	(4)
Reaction and Reform: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev	250	(3)
Problems of the Soviet Economy and Society	253	(3)
Soviet Women in the Last Years of the Regime	256	(3)
Soviet Society in the 1980s: The Balance Sheet	259	(1)
The Revolt of the Satellites and the Disintegration of the Soviet Union	260	(2)
The End of Soviet Totalitarianism	262	(3)
Lessons and Prospects	265	(12)
The Triumph of Dogmatism	265	(2)
The Structural Flaws of Totalitarianism	267	(5)
The Totalitarian Legacy	272	(5)
Bibliographical Essay	277	(24)
Index	301