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Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. Yet millions of Germans and Russians enthusiastically supporte…
Hitler and Stalin -- The Soviet famines -- Class terror -- National terror -- Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe -- The economics of apocalypse -- Final solution -- Holocaust and revenge -- The Nazi death factories -- Resistance and incineration -- Ethnic cleansings -- Stalinist antisemi…
"Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives…
An edited volume which brings together the work of the leading historians on the subject of Stalin's Terror in the 1930s underpinning new, innovative approaches and opening new perspectives in the field.
"This is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials David R. Shearer finds that mo…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Administrative Delineations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Statue of Dzerzhinsky -- CHAPTER 2 Efforts to Remember -- CHAPTER 3 Butovo and Kommunarka -- CHAPTER 4 St. Petersburg -- CHAPTER 5 The Appeal of Communi…
Butler explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, reassessing in-depth how the two men became partners, how they shared the same outlook for the postwar world, and how they formed an uneasy but deep friendship, shaping the wor…
