Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century

A tight and unmarked copy" Rising to a significant challenge in this remarkable study, Bruce Pauley compares the origins, development, and demise of all three forms of European totalitarianism, explaining why the old regimes that preceded the dictatorships failed, how the totalitarian movements arose, and how they captured, consolidated, and eventually plummeted from power. Although its vivid portraits of the dictators' youths, early careers, relationships with women, management styles, and cults of personality that they and their propaganda machines crafted are sure to fascinate all readers. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini are much more than a triple biography; it is a unique, interpretive comparison of all three dictatorships' economics, culture, education, and healthcare systems. While more conventional subjects such as diplomacy and war are by no means neglected, Professor Pauley goes further to explore the regimes' treatment of women, young people, and their terroristic oppression of religious institutions and minorities."