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Hannah Arendt in 1933. Hannah Arendt was one of the first scholars to publish a comparative study of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.In her 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt puts forward the idea of totalitarianism as a distinct type of political movement and form of government, which "differs essentially from other forms of political oppression known to us, such as despotism ...
Other historians and political scientists have made comparisons between Nazism and Stalinism as part of their work. The comparison has long provoked political controversy, [96] [97] and in the 1980s led to the historians' dispute within Germany known as the Historikerstreit. [98]
The European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 on European conscience and totalitarianism was a resolution of the European Parliament adopted on 2 April 2009 by a vote of 533–44 with 33 abstentions, in which the European Parliament condemned totalitarian crimes and called for the recognition of "Nazism, Stalinism and fascist and Communist regimes as a common legacy" and for "an honest ...
In Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, Fitzpatrick and Michael Geyer disputed the concept of totalitarianism, stating that it entered political discourse first as a term of self-description by the Italian Fascists and was only later used as a framework to compare Nazi Germany with the Soviet Union, which were not as ...
The need for equal treatment of Nazi and Soviet crimes. Hypocrisy of discrimination among victims of totalitarian crimes. II. TOTALITARIAN CRIMES: CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEY Crimes committed in Latvia by the occupation regimes of the USSR and Germany (1940–90). Political repression in the 1940s and 1950s in Estonia.
Nolte's major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism (cf. Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism). Originally trained in philosophy, he was professor emeritus of modern history at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 until his 1991 retirement.
The European Parliament resolution of 19 September 2019 on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe was a resolution of the European Parliament adopted on 19 September 2019 with 535 votes in favor, 66 against, and 52 abstentions, which called for remembrance of totalitarian crimes and condemned propaganda that denies or glorifies totalitarian crimes, and linked such ...
None of the sources compare aspects of Nazism with aspects of Stalinism; indeed they do not compare anything with anything else, and are not even talking about the same concept. Whoever wrote that section simply threw together vaguely similar-sounding statements from disparate sources and constructed an argument that none of the sources ...