Alan Bullock - Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives

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Remarkablea landmark in the comparative history of tyranny.

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Bullock ranges over a vast amount of materialgiving the reader succinct histories of this centurys two most aggressive ideologies. There is a liveliness to [his writing] that comes from the authors historical authority and knowledge, combined with a sure moral sense.

The New York Times

A magnificent piece of historical writing which makes for compulsive reading. The sweep is broad and the detailed information concisely conveyedthe judgments are sane and balanced. Lord Bullocks robust common sense permits him repeatedly to cut through the tangled web of political and historical controversy.

Financial Times (London)

Invariably interesting and informedthere are new insights and cogent analyses in every chapteran impressive literary and scholarly achievement.

Washington Post Book World

No more ambitious portrait of the two men who transformed their continent intothe Europe of the Dictators has ever been attempted, or achieved.

Wall Street Journal

[Bullock] has mastered the enormous amount of new material on German and Soviet history and this gives authority to his judgment on long controverted questions. He is the best of guides through the labyrinthine twistings of Stalins mindand an illuminating analyst.

New York Review of Books

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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Alan Bullock

Alan Bullock began his academic career in 1945 as a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and in 1960 became Founding Master of St. Catherines College, Oxford, serving as the first elected vice chancellor of the entire university between 1969 and 1973. He retired in 1980 to write full-time. Lord Bullockhe became a Life Peer in 1976is a Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Academia Europaea, and a Corresponding Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Besides the classic Hitler, A Study in Tyranny, he is also the author of Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 19451951, and co-editor of the series Oxford History of Modern Europe.

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION , OCTOBER 1993

Copyright 1991, 1993 by Alan Bullock

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd., London, in 1991.

First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in somewhat different form in 1992.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bullock, Alan, 1914

Hitler and Stalin: parallel lives / Alan Bullock.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-679-72994-1 (pbk.)

1. Hitler, Adolf, 18891945. 2. Stalin, Joseph, 18791953. 3. Heads of stateEuropeBiography. 4. GermanyHistory19331945. 5. Soviet UnionHistory19251953.

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DD247.H5B79 1993

943.086092dc20 92-56376

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