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(0)Robert Gellately
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 696 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945-from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political and ideological nature. Arguing that the tragedies...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xvi, 359 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"...exposes once and for all the substantial consent and active participation of large numbers of ordinary Germans in the terror. He shows that rather than hide their racist and repressive campaigns from the German people the Nazis trumpeted them in the national papers and on the streets. He reveals how they drew on popular images, cherished German ideals, and long held phobias to win converts to their cause. Tracing the story from 1933 to its grim...