Totalitarian Dictatorship: New Histories

280 Pages·2013·2.557 MB·English

by  Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele, Giuseppe Finaldi

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Totalitarian Dictatorship New Histories
New Histories
Edited by Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele and Giuseppe Finaldi
Edited by
Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele
and Giuseppe Finaldi
ISBN 978-0-415-83705-7
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Totalitarian Dictatorship
This volume takes a comparative approach, locating totalitarianism in the
vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents, and diff erently
envisaged futures to enhance our understanding of this fraught era in Euro-
pean 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
rewritten on, older identities, familial loyalties and the enormous resilience
of the individual (or groups of individuals) meant that the almost impos-
sible demands of their regimes needed to be constantly transformed, lim-
ited, and recast.
Daniela Baratieri is an Honorary Research Fellow in History at the Univer-
sity of Western Australia.
Mark Edele is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.
Giuseppe Finaldi is Associate Professor of History at the University of
Western Australia.
Routledge Studies in Modern European History
1 Facing Fascism 9 The Russian Revolution of 1905
The Conservative Party and the Centenary Perspectives
European dictators 1935–1940 Edited by Anthony Heywood and
Nick Crowson Jonathan D. Smele
2 French Foreign and Defence 10 Weimar Cities
Policy, 1918–1940 The Challenge of Urban
The Decline and Fall of a Great Modernity in Germany
Power John Bingham
Edited by Robert Boyce
11 The Nazi Party and the German
3 Britain and the Problem of Foreign Offi ce
International Disarmament Hans-Adolf Jacobsen and Arthur
1919–1934 L. Smith, Jr.
Carolyn Kitching
12 The Politics of Culture in
4 British Foreign Policy 1874–1914 Liberal Italy
The Role of India From Unifi cation to Fascism
Sneh Mahajan Axel Körner
5 Racial Theories in Fascist Italy 13 German Colonialism, Visual
Aaron Gilette Culture and Modern Memory
Edited by Volker M. Langbehn
6 Stormtroopers and Crisis in the
Nazi Movement 14 German Colonialism and
Activism, Ideology and National Identity
Dissolution Edited by Michael Perraudin and
Thomas D. Grant Jürgen Zimmerer
7 Trials of Irish History 15 Landscapes of the Western
Genesis and Evolution of a Front
Reappraisal 1938–2000 Materiality during the Great War
Evi Gkotzaridis Ross J. Wilson
8 From Slave Trade to Empire 16 West Germans and the Nazi
European Colonisation of Black Legacy
Africa 1780s–1880s Caroline Sharples
Edited by Olivier Pétré-
Grenouilleau
17 Alan S. Milward and a Century
of European Change
Edited by Fernando Guirao,
Frances M. B. Lynch, and Sigfrido
M. Ramírez Pérez
18 War, Agriculture, and Food
Rural Europe from the 1930s to
the 1950s
Edited by Paul Brassley, Yves
Segers and Leen Van Molle
19 Totalitarian Dictatorship
New Histories
Edited by Daniela Baratieri, Mark
Edele and Giuseppe Finaldi
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Totalitarian Dictatorship
New Histories
Edited by Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele
and Giuseppe Finaldi
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Totalitarian dictatorship : new histories / edited by Daniela Baratieri,
Mark Edele and Giuseppe Finaldi.
pages cm. — (Routledge studies in modern European history ; 19)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Totalitarianism—History—20th century. 2. Italy—
Politics and government—1922–1945. 3. Fascism—
Italy—History—20th century. 4. Germany—Politics and
government—1933–1945. 5. National socialism. 6. Spain—
Politics and government—1939–1975. 7. Fascism—Spain—
History—20th century. 8. Soviet Union—Politics and
government—1936–1953. 9. Communism—Soviet Union—
History. I. Baratieri, Daniela, editor of compilation. II. Edele, Mark,
editor of compilation. III. Finaldi, Giuseppe, editor of compilation.
JC480.T66 2013
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2013015919
ISBN13: 978-0-415-83705-7 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-48220-9 (ebk)
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
1 Beyond the Delusion:
New Histories of Totalitarian Dictatorship 1
DANIELA BARATIERI, MARK EDELE, AND GIUSEPPE FINALDI
2 Cold Empathy: Perpetrator Studies and the
Challenges in Writing a Life of Reinhard Heydrich 21
ROBERT GERWARTH
3 The Life and Death of Colonel-General Blaskowitz 39
CHRISTOPHER CLARK
4 Stalin and the World of Culture 64
SHEILA FITZPATRICK
5 The Great Manipulator: Francisco Franco 83
PAUL PRESTON
6 Blueblood and Blacksmith: A Comparative
View of Churchill’s and Mussolini’s Speeches 103
GIUSEPPE FINALDI
7 “A Place in the Sun”: The Conquest of Ethiopia
in 1935–1936 as Seen in Contemporary Diaries 123
CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN