Stalinism versus Hitlerism: the basic intentions and results
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the soundness of equating Stalinism and Nazism (Hitlerism), expressed in a resolution adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on July 1, 2009.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper compares the two movements from three different angles: first, in their basic intentions; second, in their basic accomplishments; third, in the correlation between their basic intentions and their basic results.
Findings
The paper finds that: in their proclaimed short‐ and long‐term goals, Stalinism and Hitlerism have nothing in common; in their actual short‐term (there was no long‐term) results, they were similar in content but different in form; it was their very nature that doomed their efforts to translate their basic intentions into basic results.
Originality/value
The paper shows that a similarity or dissimilarity of the two movements can be ascertained not in their total but in their parts such as, for instance, the goals they achieved and the methods they employed.
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Citation
Raiklin, E. (2011), "Stalinism versus Hitlerism: the basic intentions and results", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 38 No. 4, pp. 358-381. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068291111112059
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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