Dictators

Everyone knows how cruel and inhuman the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler were. What is often forgotten is that these murderous regimes were assured of the support of a large part of the population. In this major comparative analysis, Richard Overy vividly and convincingly sketches the power politics of Hitler and Stalin. How was the close bond between dictator and people forged? What ideals were propagated? How was the population manipulated and abused? Overy reconstructs the perfidious logic of the Stalin and Hitler terror, and brings the world of the two dictators chillingly close. A disturbing and controversial quest for the mechanics of oppression.