Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin
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Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin
Basic Books, 2012, c2010
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-462) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Americans call the Second World War The Good War." But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens,and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Hitler and Stalin 1. The Soviet Famines 2. Class Terror 3. National Terror 4. Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe 5. The Economics of Apocalypse 6. Final Solution 7. Holocaust and Revenge 8. The Nazi Death Factories 9. Resistance and Incineration 10. Ethnic Cleansings 11. Stalinist Anti-Semitism Conclusion: Humanity
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