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Pauley (history, U. of Central Florida) offers a succinct but comprehensive study surveying the dictators' youths, early careers, relationships with women, management styles, and cults of personality, along with interpretive comparison of the economics, propaganda, culture, education, and health-care systems of the three dictatorships. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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• Foreword(p. vii)
• List of Illustrations(p. xiii)
• Preface(p. xv)
• Preface to the First Edition(p. xix)
• 1. The Ideological Foundations(p. 1)
• Definitions of Totalitarianism(p. 1)
• Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism(p. 4)
• Fascism and Nazism(p. 6)
• 2. The Seizure of Power(p. 11)
• Russia on the Eve of the Revolution(p. 11)
• The Establishment of the Soviet Dictatorship(p. 15)
• The Failure of Liberal Italy(p. 21)
• The Birth and Triumph of Fascism(p. 25)
• Germany and the Impact of World War I(p. 31)
• The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Movement(p. 35)
• The Great Depression and the Nazi Takeover(p. 41)
• 3. Personalities and Policies of the Dictators(p. 48)
• Stalin's Youth and Early Career(p. 48)
• Stalin the Demigod(p. 52)
• Mussolini: The Young Socialist(p. 54)
• The Duce: Strengths and Weaknesses(p. 58)
• The Young Hitler(p. 61)
• Hitler: The Chaotic Dictator(p. 65)
• Hitler's Private Life and Relations with Women(p. 68)
• 4. Totalitarian Economies(p. 72)
• The End of the New Economic Policy(p. 72)
• Stalin's War against the Peasants(p. 75)
• The First Five-Year Plan and Industrialization(p. 81)
• The Fascist Economy(p. 84)
• The Economy of National Socialist Germany(p. 88)
• 5. Propaganda, Culture, and Education(p. 95)
• The Limitations of Propaganda(p. 95)
• Soviet Propaganda(p. 97)
• Fascist Propaganda(p. 100)
• Nazi Propaganda(p. 102)
• Totalitarian Culture(p. 106)
• Soviet Education(p. 114)
• Education in the Fascist States(p. 116)
• Youth Groups(p. 119)
• 6. Family Values and Health(p. 125)
• The Conservative Trend in Values(p. 125)
• Soviet Women: The Mixed Blessings of Emancipation(p. 127)
• Fascist Italy: The Failure of Antifeminism(p. 130)
• Women in Nazi Germany: Kinder Kirche und Kuche?(p. 135)
• Health and Eugenics in Nazi Germany(p. 140)
• Religion: The Basic Incompatibility(p. 144)
• 7. Totalitarian Terror(p. 151)
• The Great Purges in the Soviet Union(p. 152)
• Terror and Persecution in the Fascist States(p. 160)
• The Persecution of Jews(p. 162)
• 8. The Era of Traditional Diplomacy and War, 1933-1941(p. 173)
• Hitler's Foreign Policy Strategy(p. 174)
• Hitler as "Peace Lover," 1933-1935(p. 178)
• From Ethiopia to Spain: Fascist Italy at War(p. 180)
• Austria and Czechoslovakia: Hitler's First Conquests(p. 185)
• The Approach of War(p. 190)
• The Blitzkrieg Campaigns(p. 193)
• The Italian Intervention(p. 199)
• 9. Total War, 1941-1945(p. 206)
• Hitler Turns East(p. 206)
• Stalin's Preparations for War(p. 210)
• The Russian Campaign in 1941(p. 213)
• Hitler and the Untermenschen(p. 216)
• Hitler and Stalin as War Lords(p. 219)
• The Fall of Fascism(p. 226)
• The German Home Front(p. 230)
• The War in the West(p. 232)
• The End of the Third Reich(p. 236)
• 10. The Collapse of Soviet Totalitarianism(p. 242)
• Stalin's Last Years, 1945-1953(p. 242)
• The Khrushchev Era(p. 246)
• Reaction and Reform: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev(p. 250)
• Problems of the Soviet Economy and Society(p. 253)
• Soviet Women in the Last Years of the Regime(p. 256)
• Soviet Society in the 1980s: The Balance Sheet(p. 259)
• The Revolt of the Satellites and the Disintegration of the Soviet Union(p. 260)
• The End of Soviet Totalitarianism(p. 262)
• 11. Lessons and Prospects(p. 265)
• The Triumph of Dogmatism(p. 265)
• The Structural Flaws of Totalitarianism(p. 267)
• The Totalitarian Legacy(p. 272)
• Bibliographical Essay(p. 277)
• Index(p. 301)

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