Sheila Fitzpatrick

Michael Geyer

In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the historicity of the two extraordinary regimes and the wreckage they have left. With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, scholars of Europe are no longer burdened with the political baggage that constricted research and conditioned interpretation and have access to hitherto closed archives. The time is right for a fresh look at the two gigantic dictatorships of the twentieth century and for a return to the original intent of thought on totalitarian regimes - understanding the intertwined trajectories of socialism and nationalism in European and global history.

Stalinism and Nazism Compared

Beyond Totalitarianism

Helmut Lethen

Richard Bessel

Lutz Musner

Im Ersten Weltkrieg suchten die westlichen Demokratien ihre liberalen Errungenschaften gegen die Mittelmächte zu verteidigen. Der Krieg wurde jedoch zur elementaren Zäsur für das 20. Jahrhundert und wies voraus auf spätere totalitäre Gewaltexzesse. Die Autorinnen und Autoren beleuchten die vielfältigen Verwerfungen im Zeitraum von 1900 bis 1930: die politisch-räumliche und ethnische Neuordnung Europas, die daraus resultierenden gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen auch über Europas Grenzen hinaus und die Neumodellierung von Identitäten. Denn die Schlachtfelder des "Großen Krieges" gerieten zu Geburtsstätten "neuer Menschen" - von Pazifisten wie emanzipierten Frauen, Bolschewisten wie Faschisten. Man erwartete nichts weniger als eine radikal umgestaltete Gesellschaft und einen historischen Zeitenbruch.

Zur Geopolitik und Psychopolitik des Ersten Weltkriegs

Zeitalter der Gewalt

Evan Mawdsley

Joseph A. Maiolo

R. J. B. Bosworth

J. Adam Tooze

John Robert Ferris

Volume 1: The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume 1 of 'The Cambridge History of the Second World War' a team of twenty-five leading historians offer a comprehensive and authoritative new account of the war's military and strategic history. Part I examines the military cultures and strategic objectives of the eight major powers involved. Part II surveys the course of the war in its key theatres across the world, and assesses why one side or the other prevailed there. Part III considers, in a comparative way, key aspects of military activity, including planning, intelligence, and organisation of troops and material, as well as guerrilla fighting and treatment of prisoners of war.

The Cambridge History of the Second World War

Adam Tooze

The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural event. Across twenty-eight chapters and four key parts, the volume addresses complex themes such as the political economy of industrial war, the social practices of war, the moral economy of war and peace and the repercussions of catastrophic destruction. A team of nearly thirty leading historians together show how entire nations mobilized their economies and populations in the face of unimaginable violence, and how they dealt with the subsequent losses that followed. The volume concludes by considering the lasting impact of the conflict and the memory of war across different cultures of commemoration.

The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture

Lucian Hölscher

Transzendenz und religiöse Vergemeinschaftung in Deutschland

Die Gegenwart Gottes in der modernen Gesellschaft

Hartmut Lehmann

Beiträge zu einer unbewältigten Geschichte

Religion und Nation, Nation und Religion

The German Democratic Republic has become the subject of novels, memoirs and films, and the backdrop for general debates over the power of intellectuals in contemporary media and society. This collection considers the demise of the GDR and its impact on the place of intellectuals.

The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany

These essays rethink the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. They offer a new understanding of the intertwined trajectories of socialism and nationalism in European and global history.

Konrad H. Jarausch

Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous pedestrian malls. Shattered Past is a bold reconsideration of the perplexing pattern of Germany's twentieth-century history. Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer explore the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. They argue that the collapse of Communism, national reunification, and the postmodern shift call for a new reading of the country's turbulent development, one that no longer suggests continuity but rupture and conflict. Comprising original essays, the book begins by reexamining the nationalist, socialist, and liberal master narratives that have dominated the presentation of German history but are now losing their hold. Treated next are major issues of recent debate that suggest how new kinds of German history might be written: annihilationist warfare, complicity with dictatorship, the taming of power, the impact of migration, the struggle over national identity, redefinitions of womanhood, and the development of consumption as well as popular culture. The concluding chapters reflect on the country's gradual transition from chaos to civility. This penetrating study will spark a fresh debate about the meaning of the German past during the last century. There is no single master narrative, no Weltgeist, to be discovered. But there is a fascinating story to be told in many different ways.

Michael Geyer

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