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1 online resource (211 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Klas-Goran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, and Ulf Zander -- The evil twins of modern history? : patterns of communism-National Socialism entanglement / Klas-Goran Karlsson -- Making sense of inhumanity : on the treatment of an open wound in our history culture / Jorn Rusen -- The dystopian trilemma : the guiding potential of the Nazi-communist equalization and strategies used when questioning it / Johan Stenfeldt -- The intertwined history of political violence in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany : the case study of Helmut Weiss / Anton Weiss-Wendt -- Herbert Norkus and Pavel Morozov as totalitarian child martyrs : a study of political religion / Johan Dietsch -- Communism's compelling grasp : enduring the gulag and enduring loyalty / Nanci Adler -- The Lontsky Street Prison Memorial Museum : an example of postcommunist holocaust negationism / John-Paul Himka -- Writing history, denying the past? : on revisionism, the holocaust and soviet terror / Maria Karlsson. |
| Summary |
"This collection explores the questions of whether, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism could and should be situated within a single coherent narrative. The contributors examine ideology, terror, secular religion, museum exhibits, and denial in order to critically analyze these complex, entangled historical phenomena"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Totalitarianism.
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Communism.
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National socialism.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Karlsson, Klas-Goran, author, editor.
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Stenfeldt, Johan, 1978- author, editor.
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Zander, Ulf, author, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Perspectives on the entangled history of communism and Nazism : a comnaz analysis. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015] |
| ISBN |
9781498518703 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781498518710 (electronic bk.) |
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