The Dictators

Richard Overy delivers the first major historical analysis of the Hitler and Stalin dictatorships together. This absorbing study explores the two leaders' private and public lives, their ascents to absolute power, their waging of massive war, and the empires of camps and prisons—including the Nazi extermination camps and the Soviet Gulag—their regimes created. Overy investigates how these lethal systems, responsible for millions of deaths, took shape within formal constitutional structures and drew popular support, revealing the human and historical roots of these unparalleled evils.

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