Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), ix + 563 pp., hardcover 95.00, pbk. 28.99, eBook 23.00
In 1999 the sociologists Randall Collins and David Waller grouped the concept of totalitarianism among the “theories that were completely wrong.” The editors and authors of this collection would certainly agree. With one exception (about which more below), all of the contributors include an obligato...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 457-459 |
| Review of: | Beyond totalitarianism (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) (Orlow, Dietrich)
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| Summary: | In 1999 the sociologists Randall Collins and David Waller grouped the concept of totalitarianism among the “theories that were completely wrong.” The editors and authors of this collection would certainly agree. With one exception (about which more below), all of the contributors include an obligatory remark that totalitarianism as a concept is not very useful in analyzing Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Third Reich., So, one might well ask, why beat the dead horse once again? Fortunately, this collection, which grew out of a series of conferences between 2002 and 2005, is far more than yet another look at “totalitarianism.” It is in fact one of the best efforts to study Stalinism and Nazism from a comparative perspective. The book is unique in a number of ways. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr052 |