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| Author | Alan Bullock |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | 1991 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover andpaperback) |
| Pages | 1158 |
| ISBN | 0-00-686198-9 |
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives is a 1991 book by the British historianAlan Bullock, in which the author puts the German dictatorAdolf Hitler in perspective with the Soviet dictatorJoseph Stalin.
Bullock had already written a biography of Hitler in 1952 (Hitler: A Study in Tyranny). InHitler and Stalin, he analyses the inner doctrines that made victory and unparalleled terror possible. While analyzing the lives of Hitler and Stalin, he prompts the reader with the importance of the German-Russian axis in the first half of the century.[1]
The title and structure of the book refer to the ancient Greek writerPlutarch and hisParallel Lives.[citation needed]
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