absolute
anti-Semitic
aron
Asian Communist Regimes
black
book
Category=JP
Category=NHB
Category=NHTZ
communism
Communist Atrocities
comparative genocide analysis
comparative totalitarian regimes research
Confers
Democratic Kampuchea
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Follow
Good Life
historical trauma research
Hold
ideological violence
Italian Fascism
Italian War Crimes
Jewish Bolshevism
Kafka's Story
Kafka’s Story
Khmer Rouges
Lesser Evil
malia
Mammoth
martin
mass
memory politics
Moral Comparison
murder
Mussolini's Regime
Mussolini’s Regime
NATO
Perpetrator Memory
Postwar
postwar European history
raymond
totalitarianism studies
Unlimited
USA
Victim Memory
Violate
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9780714654935
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book comprises 14 essays by scholars who disagree about the methods and purposes of comparing Nazism and Communism. The central idea is that if these two different memories of evil were to develop in isolation, their competition for significance would distort the real evils both movements propagated. Whilst many reject this comparison because they feel it could relativize the evil of one of these movements, the claim that a political movement is uniquely evil can only be made by comparing it to another movement.
How do these issues affect postwar interrelations between memory and history? Are there tensions between the ways postwar societies remember these atrocities, and the ways in which intellectuals and scholars reconstruct what happened? Nazism and Communism have been constantly compared since the 1920s. A sense of the ways in which these comparisons have been used and abused by both Right and Left belongs to our common history.
These twentieth century evils invite comparison, if only because of their traumatic effects. We have an obligation to understand what happened, and we also have an obligation to understand how we have dealt with it.
Helmut Dubiel is the incumbent of the Max Weber-Chair at New York University.
Gabriel Motzkin is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
