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Title: Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock ISBN: 0-679-72994-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.61 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An incredible experience...worth the effort
Comment: It is difficult to describe Alan Bullock's fantastic dual-biography of Hitler and Stalin, and others have done much better here than I could. Allow me to add their voices to theirs in praise of this work. Bullock not only manages to convey the terrible sweep of history of the first half of the 20th Century and the impact of these two monsters of history, but does so in a very readable style. I marvel that a book of nearly 1000 pages, many of them filled with either terrible stories of oppression and horror, or else mindnumbing (but critical) economic statistics, can hold one's interest enough from start to finish. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Absorbing and informative, but a little heavy
Comment: How is possible to write a book about two of the most horrendous people in history and still keep it readable? Well, Alan Bullock must know the secret because he's managed it here. The early chapters on Stalin are rather heavy going, but once Bullock gets into his stride, it's impossible to put this book down. The research and scholarship are awesomely thorough and the writing, for the most part, shows a lightness of touch that must have been hard to achieve in dealing with such a subject. Perhaps not quite as good as the same author's "Hitler: A Study in Tyranny", but nevertheless an excellent effort. Recommended.
Rating: 2
Summary: interesting way to look at these monsters
Comment: This book details the lives of two profoundly evil individuals, Stalin and Hitler. Both men seemed off to a good start, one in the war and as an artist and the other in the seminary. Yet other issues dominated the childhood of these men that forced them into extremist polituics and eventually led them to mass murder. Both were phenomenal politicians and able to lure their own collaborators to their doom. An interesting way to present these two, by comparing and contrasting these similar lives that led too very different outcomes.
Now the writing itself is commendable and so are the parralells. But the author should have written two biographies. The only redemption this book has is that it shows how right wing facism is exactly the same as left wing liberalism(Communbism to be exact in this case). Stalin and Hitler allthough they prported themselves to be on diffrent wings of the political spectrum were both monsters who crushed minorities and enslaved their own people. They became allies in 1939 and the world shuddered with what these beasts could accomplish together, luckily for all of us Stalin and Hitler wasted the enslaved masses of their nations destorying eachother. All the better for the Americans to pick up the pieces.
I would recommend Conquests' "Stalin breaker of Nations" and Kershaws two volume work on Hitler "Hubris" and "Nemisis".
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Title: Stalin : The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia'sSecret Archives by Edvard Radzinsky ISBN: 0385479549 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service ISBN: 0674008286 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment) by Michael C. C. Adams ISBN: 0801846978 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Hitler : A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock ISBN: 0060920203 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris by Ian Kershaw ISBN: 0393046710 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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