Perspectives on the entangled history of communism and Nazism : a comnaz analysis /
edited by Klas-Goran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, and Ulf Zander.
- 1 online resource (211 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Klas-Goran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, and Ulf Zander -- The evil twins of modern history? : patterns of communism-National Socialism entanglement / Klas-Goran Karlsson -- Making sense of inhumanity : on the treatment of an open wound in our history culture / Jorn Rusen -- 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
Totalitarianism. Communism. National socialism.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953. Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.