Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century

by Pauley, Bruce F.

• ISBN13: 9780882959351
• ISBN10: 0882959352
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

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