Stalinism and nazism: history and memory compared

Introduction to the English-language edition : the politics of history and memory in France in the 1990s / Richard J. Golsan

Introduction : the legitimacy of an empirical comparison / Henry Rousso

Pt. 1. historical comparison

Presentation / Philippe Burrin and Nicolas Werth

Stalin's system during the 1930s / Nicolas Werth

Charisma and radicalism in the Nazi regime / Philippe Burrin

Strategies of violence in the stalinist USSR / Nicolas Werth

congenital violence of Nazism / Philippe Burrin

Forms of autonomy in "socialist society" / Nicolas Werth

Nazi regime and German society : the prisms of acceptance / Philippe Burrin

Pt. 2. wages of memory in formerly communist eastern Europe

Facism and communism in Romania : the comparative stakes and uses / Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine

Historians and the political stakes of the past in Hungary / Paul Gradvohl

Managing the past in Bulgaria / Francois Frison-Roche

Nazism and communism in polish experience and memory / Andrzej Paczkowski

archive's revolution and the rewriting of history : East Germany / Etienne Francois

Pt. 3. Commentaries

Beyond history and memory / Pierre Hassner

Postscript on the ideas of totalitarianism and of the "communist regime" / Krzysztof Pomian.