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Perspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism - A Comnaz Analysis (Hardcover)
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Perspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism - A Comnaz Analysis (Hardcover)
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The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the
histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be
situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena,
can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to each other? Do
they belong to the same historical contexts? Have they influenced,
reacted to or learned from each other? Are they interpreted,
represented and used together by posterity? The background of the
book is twofold. One is external. There is an ongoing debate about
the historical entanglements of Communism and Nazism, especially
about Auschwitz and Gulag, respectively. Our present fascination
with the evil history of genocide has situated the Holocaust as the
borderline event in Western historical thinking. The crimes against
humanity perpetrated by the Soviet Communist regime do not have the
same position but are considered more urgent in the East and
Central European states that were subdued by both Nazi and
Communist regimes. The other, internal background is to develop an
analytical perspective in which the "comnaz" nexus can be
understood. Using a complex approach, the authors investigate
Communist and Nazi histories as entangled phenomena, guided by
three basic perspectives. Focusing on roots and developments, a
genetic perspective highlights historical, process-oriented
connections. A structural perspective indicates an attempt to
narrow down "operational" parallels of the two political systems in
the way they handled ideology to construct social utopia, used
techniques of terror, etc. A third perspective is genealogical,
emphasizing the processing and use of Communist and Nazi history by
posterity in terms of meaning and memory: What past is worth
remembering, celebrating, debating-but also distorting and
forgetting? The chapters of the book address phenomena such as
ideology, terror, secular religion, museum exhibits, and denial.
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