Pauley, Hitler, Stalin And Mussolini - Totalitarianism In The Twentieth Century

Abstract

Much of the history of Europe in the twentieth century can be viewed from the perspective of the actions taken by or in opposition to the ideas, ambitions, and policies of Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and, to a much lesser extent, Benito Mussolini. Bruce Pauley's Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini is accordingly a salutary reminder of how a few determined individuals, when given almost unlimited power to impose their ideologies on others, have altered the fates of millions of ordinary individuals, not to mention the very nations they led. Stalin's economic policies between 1930 and 1937 caused the deaths of fourteen million Russians, forced the relocation of tens of millions more, and produced a chronically underproductive Soviet agricultural sector, no doubt a factor contributing to the collapse of the USSR.