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Perspectives on the entangled history of communism and Nazism : a comnaz analysis /

Perspectives on the entangled history of communism and Nazism : a comnaz analysis / [electronic resource] edited by Klas-Göran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, and Ulf Zander. - 1 online resource (211 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Klas-Göran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, and Ulf Zander -- The evil twins of modern history? : patterns of communism-National Socialism entanglement / Klas-Göran Karlsson -- Making sense of inhumanity : on the treatment of an open wound in our history culture / Jörn Rüsen -- 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.

"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"--

9781498518710 (e-book)


Totalitarianism.
Communism.
National socialism.


Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.


Electronic books.

JC480 / .P475 2015

335.4309

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