ABSTRACT
This volume takes a comparative approach, locating totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents and differently envisaged futures to enhance our understanding of this fraught era in European history. It shows that no matter how often totalitarian societies spoke of and imagined their subjects as so many slates to be wiped clean and re-written on, older identities, familial loyalties and the enormous resilience of the individual (or groups of individuals) meant that the almost impossible demands of their regimes needed to be constantly transformed, limited and recast.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|18 pages
Cold Empathy
Perpetrator Studies and the Challenges in Writing a Life of Reinhard Heydrich
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chapter 6|20 pages
Blueblood and Blacksmith
A Comparative View of Churchill's and Mussolini's Speeches
chapter 7|15 pages
“A Place in the Sun”
The Conquest of Ethiopia in 1935-1936 as Seen in Contemporary Diaries
chapter 8|19 pages
“Wrapped in Passionless Impartiality?”
Italian Psychiatry during the Fascist Regime
chapter 10|18 pages
Peasants into Nationals
Violence, War, and the Making of Turks and Greeks, 1912-1922
chapter 11|22 pages
Learning from the Enemy?
Entangling Histories of the German-Soviet War, 1941-1945
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