The washington history seminar thanks the wilson centers kennan institute for their cosponsorship of this event. Until world war ii, stalins regime was by far the more murderous of the two. Bloodlands is a new kind of european history, presenting the mass murders committed by the nazi and stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred. I dont need you to tell me someone is evil, diabolical, just tell. Hitler and stalin parallel lives by alan bullock illustrated. How should we factor it into the growing historicalmoralpolitical argument over how to compare hitlers and. A study in tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the nazi era, lord alan bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished. The book is long nearly 980 pages without including another 100 pages of appendices, footnotes, reference sources, etc. An icon in the shape of a persons head and shoulders. A portrait of stalin in all his murderous contradictions. Stalin killed eight million ukranians among others. Stalin, hitler and the temptations of totalitarianism. The german invasion of the soviet union on june 22, 194. In the second half of the twentieth century, americans were taught to see both nazi germany and the soviet union as the greatest of evils.
The closest they came was a pair of meetings that molotov had with hitler in berlin, in november of 1940. The first edition of this novel was published in 1991, and was written by alan bullock. A professor of eastern european history at yale, his most recent book, bloodlands. Parallel lives, by the british historian alan bullock, published in 1992, is the best and certainly, at. Churchill vs hitler dealing with the beginning of world war ii in the west. Parallel lives, by the british historian alan bullock, published in 1992, is. Hitler and stalin parallel lives by alan bullock is a very good book about arguably the two dominant figures in twentieth century history. The book was published in multiple languages including language, consists of 1152 pages and is available in paperback format. In this provocative revisionist analysis of the war between hitler and stalin, mosier provides a dramatic, vigorous narrative of events as he shows how most previous histories accepted stalins lies and distortions to produce a false sense of soviet triumph.
The secret dossier prepared for stalin is the englishlanguage title of the translated 2005 publication of a longsecret soviet report on the life of adolf hitler written at the behest of joseph stalin. Nazi germany began to kill on the soviet scale only after the molotovribbentrop pact in the summer of 1939 and the joint germansoviet invasion of poland that september. June 1941 is a succinct essay on hitlers invasion of the soviet union on june 22, 1941. Parallel lives is a 1991 book by the historian alan bullock, in which the author puts the german dictator adolf hitler in perspective with the. Donald trumps exwife once said trump kept a book of hitlers speeches by. Hitler and stalin by alan bullock, 9780006863748, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Both were entirely serious about their historic roles, the author says. The book ends by praising the european day of remembrance for. Of the many books that deal with these two worldchanging figures, hitler and stalin. Parallel lives by alan bullock is a highly engrossing book that chronicles the key events in the lives of both dictators in a sidebyside comparison.