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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821130003321

Titolo

Perspectives on the entangled history of communism and Nazism : a comnaz analysis / / edited by Klas-Göran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, and Ulf Zander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-1871-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Disciplina

335.4309

Soggetti

Totalitarianism

Communism

National socialism

Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--