The lesser evil : moral approaches to genocide practices /
This book comprises 14 essays by scholars who disagree about the methods and purposes of comparing Nazism and Communism.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Series: | Totalitarian movements and political religions.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Nazism-communism: delineating the comparison / Martin Malia
- The uses and abuses of comparison / Tzvetan Todorov
- Worstward ho: on comparing totalitarianisms / Irving Wohlfarth
- Imagining the absolute: mapping Western conceptions of evil / Steven E. Aschheim
- Remembrance and knowledge: nationalism and Stalinism in comparative discourse / Dan Diner
- Comparative evil: degrees, numbers and the problem of measure / Berel Lang
- The institutional frame: totalitarianism, extermination and the state / Sigrid Meuschel
- Asian communist regimes: the other experience of the extreme / Jean-Louis Margolin
- A lesser evil? Italian fascism in/and the totalitarian equation / Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- On the moral blindness of communism / Steven Lukes
- Totalitarian attempts, anti-totalitarian networks: thoughts on the taboo of comparison / Ulrike Ackermann
- If Hitler invaded Hell: distinguishing between Nazism and communism during World War II, the Cold War and since the fall of European communism / Jeffrey Herf
- The memory of crime and the formation of indentity / Gabriel Motzkin
- Mirror-writing of a good life? / Helmut Dubiel.
