‘The only way to deal with enemies is to apply the most ruthless policy of suppression’ Josef Stalin ‘Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace’ Adolf Hitler Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They presided over the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history. Yet millions of Germans and Russians enthusiastically supported them and the values they stood for. In the first major history to analyse in depth the two regimes and their populations together, Richard Overy sets out to answer the questions: How was dictatorship possible? How did it function? What was the bond that tied dictator and people so powerfully together? Overy paints a remarkable and vivid account of the different ways in which Stalin and Hitler rose to power and abused and dominated their people.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140281491
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 896
Tiempo de lectura:
18h 39m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 14/02/2005
Año de edición: 2005
Plaza de edición: London
Alto: 20.0 cm
Ancho: 13.0 cm
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Richard Overy
Richard Overy es profesor de Historia en la Universidad de Exeter y uno de los historiadores ingleses más reconocidos. Es miembro de la British Academy y de la European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Entre sus numerosos títulos, Tusquets ha publicado también Dictadores (un excepcional paralelismo entre Hitler y Stalin) ganador en 2005 del Wolfson Prize.