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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Husain, Mir Zohair
• Liebertz, Scott

Titel

Hitler, Stalin, and Authoritarianism: A Comparative Analysis (Part 2)

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of psychohistory, 2019-10, Vol.47 (2), p.103-125

Ort / Verlag

New York: Association for Psychohistory, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to Stalin, what bound a nation together was not race, but language, territory, culture, economics, and attitude.11 In their writings, we see an emphasis on authoritarianism. After the failure at the Battle of Stalingrad, Hitler's charisma was subject to serious doubt. [...]the regime shifted gears by hiding him from the public and increasing domestic campaigns of terror against any criticism.45 As is common with tyrants, Stalin promoted a belief accepted by many that he had powers and virtues that were effectually superhuman.46 He not only considered himself uniquely talented, but had a deep need for others to acknowledge this. [...]he discouraged elitism and racism. [...]Stalin and his successors helped many Asian and African states achieve their independence as a way of spreading the Soviet Union communist ideology.79 Through his absolute and brutal authoritarian rule, which included periodic purges and the relegation of political enemies to the prison system known as the gulags, Stalin contributed to the deaths of over 20 million people.80 By the time of his death, those banished to the gulags increased to a peak of 2.5 million people.81 During the compulsory collectivization of the first Five Year Plan alone, approximately five to six million people died.