Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini

Bruce F. Pauley, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Central Florida, holds degrees from Grinell College, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Rochester. He also studied at the University of Graz (Austria) and the University of Vienna. He is the author of The Habsburg Legacy, 1867-1939; Heimatschutz und hakenkrenz: Steirischer Heimatschutz und Osterreichischer nationalsozialismus, 1918-1934; Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism; and Der Weg in den Nationalsozialisms: Ursprunge und Entwicklung in Osterreich. His book, From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism, won the Chrles Smith award from the Austrian Cultural Institute. Its German translation, Eine Geshichte des osterreichischen Antisemitismus: Von der Ausgrenzung Zur Ausloschung, was a best seller in Austria. He has been granted a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and several stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1966 and 2005 he received distinguished alumni awards from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently completing a book on ethnic conflict in Central Europe with Charles Ingrao of Purdue University.

Preface; The Ideological Foundations; The Seizure of Power; Personalities & Policies of the Dictators; Totalitarian Economies; Propaganda, Culture & Education; Family Values & Health; Totalitarian Terror; The Era of Traditional Diplomacy & War, 1933-1941; Total War, 1941-1945; The Collapse of Soviet Totalitarianism; Lessons & Prospects.