Historic Documents of Totalitarianism
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This volume explores critical aspects of the rise and expansion of totalitarian movements through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
This volume explores critical aspects of the rise and expansion of totalitarian movements through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
Contents
Totalitarianism
Communism in the Soviet Union
Fascism in Western Europe
Totalitarianism as Anti-modernity
Vladimir Lenin: What Is to Be Done?
Rudolf Steiner: Theosophy
John Reed: “Soviets in Action”
Clara Zetkin: “Organising Working Women”
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf
José Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses
Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
Benito Mussolini: “The Doctrine of Fascism”
Joseph Stalin: “Results of the First Five-year Plan”
Rudolf Hess: Oath to Adolf Hitler
Leon Trotsky: “I Stake My Life!”
Munich Pact
Reinhard Heydrich: Memorandum concerning Kristallnacht
Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Neville Chamberlain: Speech on Germany’s Invasion of Poland
Liu Shaoqi: How to Be a Good Communist
Vyacheslav Molotov: Address on Germany’s Invasion of Russia
Cardinal Clemens von Galen: “Against Nazi Euthanasia”
John W. Pehle and John J. McCloy: Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz
Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany
Robert H. Jackson: Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany
Mao Zedong: “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship”
Mao Zedong: “On the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture”