Totalitarian Dictatorship New Histories [Hardcover]

This volume takes a comparative approach, locating totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents and differently envisaged futures to enhance our understanding of this fraught era in European history. It shows that no matter how often totalitarian societies spoke of and imagined their subjects as so many slates to be wiped clean and re-written on, older identities, familial loyalties and the enormous resilience of the individual (or groups of individuals) meant that the almost impossible demands of their regimes needed to be constantly transformed, limited and recast.

1. Beyond the Delusion: New Histories of Totalitarian Dictatorship  Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele and Giuseppe Finaldi  2. Cold Empathy: Perpetrator Studies and the Challenges in Writing a Life of Reinhard Heydrich  Robert Gerwarth  3. The Life and Death of General Blaskowitz  Christopher Clark  4. Stalin and the World of Culture  Sheila Fitzpatrick  5. The Great Manipulator: Francisco Franco  Paul Preston  6. Blueblood and Blacksmith: A Comparative View of Churchills and Mussolinis Speeches  Giuseppe Finaldi  7. A Place in the Sun : The Conquest of Ethiopia in 1935-36 As Seen in Contemporary Diaries  Christopher Duggan  8. Wrapped in Passionless Impartiality? : Italian Psychiatry During the Fascist Regime  Daniela Baratieri  9. Coercion, Consent, and Accommodation in the Third Reich  Dick Geary  10. Peasants into Nationals: Violence, War, and the Making of Turks and Greeks, 1912-1922  Nicholas Doumanis  11. Learning from the Enemy?: Entangling Histories of the German-Soviet War, 1941-1945  MarklÃ4