Between National Socialism And Soviet Communism

Author : Anna Holian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472117807
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism written by Anna Holian and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1945, there were more than eight million “displaced persons” (or DPs) in Germany—recently liberated foreign workers, concentration camp prisoners, and prisoners of war from all of Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as eastern Europeans who had fled west before the advancing Red Army. Although most of them quickly returned home, it soon became clear that large numbers of eastern European DPs could or would not do so. Focusing on Bavaria, in the heart of the American occupation zone, Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism examines the cultural and political worlds that four groups of displaced persons—Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Jewish—created in Germany during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The volume investigates the development of refugee communities and how divergent interpretations of National Socialism and Soviet Communism defined these displaced groups. Combining German and eastern European history, Anna Holian draws on a rich array of sources in cultural and political history and engages the broader literature on displacement in the fields of anthropology, sociology, political theory, and cultural studies. Her book will interest students and scholars of German, eastern European, and Jewish history; migration and refugees; and human rights.

Author : Klas-Göran Karlsson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498518710
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism written by Klas-Göran Karlsson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena, can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to each other? Do they belong to the same historical contexts? Have they influenced, reacted to or learned from each other? Are they interpreted, represented and used together by posterity? The background of the book is twofold. One is external. There is an ongoing debate about the historical entanglements of Communism and Nazism, especially about Auschwitz and Gulag, respectively. Our present fascination with the evil history of genocide has situated the Holocaust as the borderline event in Western historical thinking. The crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Soviet Communist regime do not have the same position but are considered more urgent in the East and Central European states that were subdued by both Nazi and Communist regimes. The other, internal background is to develop an analytical perspective in which the “comnaz” nexus can be understood. Using a complex approach, the authors investigate Communist and Nazi histories as entangled phenomena, guided by three basic perspectives. Focusing on roots and developments, a genetic perspective highlights historical, process-oriented connections. A structural perspective indicates an attempt to narrow down “operational” parallels of the two political systems in the way they handled ideology to construct social utopia, used techniques of terror, etc. A third perspective is genealogical, emphasizing the processing and use of Communist and Nazi history by posterity in terms of meaning and memory: What past is worth remembering, celebrating, debating—but also distorting and forgetting? The chapters of the book address phenomena such as ideology, terror, secular religion, museum exhibits, and denial.

Author : Ken Post
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349145149
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communists and National Socialists written by Ken Post and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-06-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the coming to power of the Nazis in Germany in 1933 in light of the marxist proposition that revolution would come in advanced capitalist societies. The implications of the actual cases for the theory are drawn out, and an original theorization of capitalist crisis combining economic and political factors is put forward.

Author : Walter Ze'ev Laqueur
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412833547
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia and Germany written by Walter Ze'ev Laqueur and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1965 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316583783
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalinism and Nazism written by Ian Kershaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally distinguished contributors to this landmark volume represent a variety of approaches to the Nazi and Stalinist regimes. These far-reaching essays provide the raw materials towards a comparative analysis and offer the means to deepen and extend research in the field. The first section highlights similarities and differences in the leadership cults at the heart of the dictatorships. The second section moves to the 'war machines' engaged in the titanic clash of the regimes between 1941 and 1945. A final section surveys the shifting interpretations of successor societies as they have faced up to the legacy of the past. Combined, the essays presented here offer unique perspectives on the most violent and inhumane epoch in modern European history.

Author : Franöois Furet
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803269149
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fascism and Communism written by Franöois Furet and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his major work on communism, the international bestseller The Passing of an Illusion, the eminent French historian Franöois Furet devoted a lengthy footnote to German historian Ernst Nolte?s interpretation of fascism. Nolte responded, a correspondence ensued, and the result was the remarkable exchange presented in this volume. Fascism and Communism offers readers the rare opportunity to witness and learn from a confrontation between two of the world?s most distinguished historians over one of the most serious subjects of our time. Each from a different perspective, Furet and Nolte offer compelling arguments for the common genealogy of these two ideologies as well as reasons for the intellectual community?s rejection of this explosive thesis throughout the twentieth century. This discussion leads to a deeper understanding of the nature of totalitarianism as well as the trajectory and interpretation of modern European history.

Author : Michael Kellogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139442992
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Roots of Nazism written by Michael Kellogg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the overlooked topic of the influence of anti-Bolshevik, anti-Semitic Russian exiles on Nazism. White émigrés contributed politically, financially, militarily, and ideologically to National Socialism. This work refutes the notion that Nazism developed as a peculiarly German phenomenon: it arose primarily from the cooperation between völkisch (nationalist/racist) Germans and vengeful White émigrés. From 1920–1923, Adolf Hitler collaborated with a conspiratorial far right German-White émigré organization, Aufbau (Reconstruction). Aufbau allied with Nazis to overthrow the German government and Bolshevik rule through terrorism and military-paramilitary schemes. This organization's warnings of the monstrous 'Jewish Bolshevik' peril helped to inspire Hitler to launch an invasion of the Soviet Union and to initiate the mass murder of European Jews. This book uses extensive archival materials from Germany and Russia, including recently declassified documents, and will prove invaluable reading for anyone interested in the international roots of National Socialism.

Author : Ian Tinny
Publisher : No Pledge Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book BLACK SUN - the Mythological Background of National Socialism written by Ian Tinny and published by No Pledge Publishing. This book was released on with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLACK SUN sheds new light on the sources of Nazi ideology by examining its occult roots in the world of myths, symbols, and fantasies. It traces this development from the writings of various mystics in the early 20th century who propagated the mythology of a superior global ideology whose heroes would fight the forces of moral decadence and greed. The book uses rare archival photographs and sources to chronicle how the Nazis used these mythological foundations to develop Nazism as a political religion. While BLACK SUN documents the nationalist mystical beliefs that infused National Socialism, the book also reveals the disturbing perpetuation of these beliefs among certain political groups today, in Germany and worldwide, reflecting an ongoing search for salvation, inspiration and messianic leaders. This eye-popping expose' juxtaposes the polarization in German national history between an obsession with capturing light in all its symbolic uses in order to battle the "darkness" of the Others. The final lesson that Black Sun implies -and what makes it a provocative and interesting book for a number of audiences, whether scholars and students of history, or iconography- is the danger of not knowing one's own history. In this sense, the title signals not only the recurrent theme of evil throughout history, but also the need to shed light upon all its manifestations.

Author : Dumitru Sandru
Publisher : Chivileri Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781942612179
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler Was a Socialist written by Dumitru Sandru and published by Chivileri Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We associate Fascism with NAZI and Adolf Hitler. Wrong! Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Worker's Party, NAZI, was a Socialist party.Then who told us that Hitler and the NAZI were Fascist? Joseph Stalin, the mass murderer of the USSR said so. And the rest of the world obeyed. It is time to uncover the truth.Adolf Hitler was a monster, a Socialist monster, as all Socialists are. The facts are out there in plain sight, but the Marxist Academia and media will not consider talking about the truth, least it would tarnish the "good" reputation of the Communism-Socialism, which killed 200 million people worldwide.Socialism, we must fear, not fascism.

Author : Stéphane Courtois
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674076082
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Book of Communism written by Stéphane Courtois and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.