The European Dictatorships : Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini

Dictatorships: ideologies and totalitarianism 1(13) Ideological terms 1(1) Communism 2(5) Fascism 7(4) Fascism and Nazism 11(1) Dictatorships: authoritarian or totalitarian? 12(2) From Leninism to Stalinism, 1918--28 14(46) The impact of the First World War, 1914--17 14(3) Why the Bolsheviks succeeded in establishing power, 1917--18 17(5) Civil war and foreign intervention, 1918--21 22(7) The revolutionary state, 1921--24 29(15) The rise of Stalin, 1924--28 44(16) Document case study 57(3) Stalin's `revolution from above', 1928--41 60(24) Stalin's `turn to the left' and the abandonment of the NEP 60(4) Collectivisation and the five-year plans 64(4) How successful were Stalin's economic policies? 68(3) Soviet foreign policy under Stalin 71(5) The Soviet state at war, 1941--45 76(6) The immediate consequences of the Great Patriotic War 82(2) The Stalinist state, 1929--39 84(14) Stalin's insecurities, 1930--34 84(2) The Great Purge 86(4) Power and the Stalinist state 90(2) The impact of the Great purge 92(1) Explaining the Great Purge and the Great Terror 92(3) The Stalinist state after the Great Patriotic War 95(3) The rise of Italian Fascism, 1918--24 98(17) The impact of the First World War and the peace treaties, 1914--19 98(2) The rise of Fascism, 1919--22 100(9) Mussolini's consolidation of power, 1922--23 109(6) Document case study 113(2) The Fascist state, 1925--45 115(24) The establishment of the dictatorship, 1925--28 115(2) The corporate state 117(2) Economic policy 119(3) The social impact of Fascism 122(4) Ducismo: the cult of II Duce and propaganda 126(4) Fascism and foreign policy 130(4) The impact of the Second World War, 1940--45 134(5) Weimar Germany and the rise of Nazism, 1919--33 139(17) Germany's problems, 1918--20 139(3) Hitler and the Nazi Party, 1918--24 142(3) The Nazis' `lean years', 1924--28 145(3) The collapse of Weimar Germany, 1929--33 148(8) The Nazi `revolution', 1933--39 156(36) Economic policy 156(6) The social impact of Nazism 162(1) The social classes 162(4) Volksgemeinschaft 166(11) Propaganda and the `Hitler myth' 177(3) Foreign policy and war 180(1) The `revisionist' phase, 1933--36 180(4) The pre-war crises, 1938--39 184(1) The Nazi state at war, 1939--45 185(2) The historical debate 187(5) Document case study 189(3) Consolidating and maintaining the Nazi dictatorship, 1933--39 192(18) Creating the Nazi dictatorship 192(2) Gleichschaltung 194(3) The Nazi state 197(2) Power in Nazi Germany 199(5) Support for Hitler and the Nazis 204(1) Opposition to the Nazis 205(5) Comparisons and contrasts 210(15) Leninism and Stalinism 210(2) Fascism and Nazism 212(2) Fascism and communism 214(5) Problems with totalitarianism and fascism 219(2) Comparative themes 221(4) Selected bibliography 225(2) Chronology 227(6) Index 233