Todd Alan. The European Dictatorships: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 242 p. — (Cambridge Perspectives in History) — ISBN-10: 0521776058; ISBN-13: 978-0521776059An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The European dictatorships provides a well-balanced account of the three main European dictatorships in the period 1919-45. Allan Todd explores Stalinism, Fascism and Nazism in detail, dealing with the establishment and maintenance of power, the nature of party and state rule, the distribution of power, the purpose and impact of social and economic policies, opposition, and the significance of foreign policy and war. Comparisons and contrasts between the dictatorships are also highlighted. Using a wide range of primary sources, this book deals with the main historical and interpretive issues of this subject in an accessible way.Dictatorships: ideologies and totalitarianismIdeological terms
Communism
Fascism
Fascism and Nazism
Dictatorships: authoritarian or totalitarian?From Leninism to Stalinism, 1918-28The impact of the First World War, 1914-17
Why the Bolsheviks succeeded in establishing power, 1917-18
Civil war and foreign intervention, 1918-21
The revolutionary state, 1921-24
The rise of Stalin, 1924-28
Document case studyStalin's 'revolution from above', 1928-41Stalin's 'turn to the left' and the abandonment of the NEP
Collectivisation and the five-year plans
How successful were Stalin's economic policies?
Soviet foreign policy under Stalin
The Soviet state at war, 1941 -45
The immediate consequences of the Great Patriotic WarThe Stalinist state, 1929-39Stalin's insecurities, 1930-34
The Great Purge
Power and the Stalinist state
The impact of the Great Purge
Explaining the Great Purge and the Great Terror
The Stali nist state after the Great Patriotic WarThe rise of Italian Fascism, 1918-24
The impact of the First World War and the peace treaties, 1914-19
The rise o f Fascism, 1919-22
Mussolini's consolidation of power, 1922-23
Document case studyThe Fascist state, 1925-45The establishment of the dictatorship, 1925-28
The corporate state
Economic policy
The social impact of Fascism
Ducismo: the cult of If Duce and propaganda
Fascism and foreign policy
The impact of the Second World War, 1940-45Weimar Germany and the rise of Nazism, 1919-33Germany's problems, 1918-20
Hitler and the Nazi Party, 1918-24
The Nazis' 'lean years', 1924-28
The collapse of Weimar Germany, 1929-33The Nazi 'revolution', 1933-39Economic policy
The social impact of Nazism
The social classes
Volksgemeinschaft
Propaganda and the 'Hitler myth'
Foreign policy and war
The 'revisionist' phase, 1933-36
The pre-war crises, 1938-39
The Nazi state at war, 1939-45
The historical debate
Document case studyConsolidating and maintaining the Nazi dictatorship, 1933-39Creating the Nazi dictatorship
Gleichschaltung
The Nazi state
Power in Nazi Germany
Support for Hitler and the Nazis
Opposition to the NazisComparisons and contrastsLeninism and Stalinism
Fascism and Nazism
Fascism and communism
Problems with totalitarianism and fascism
Comparative themes