Lenin stalin and hitler the age of social catastrophe gellately robert isbn 9780224062831 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The central thesis of robert gellatelys work lenin stalin and hitler the age of social catastrophe is that the advent of lenin and the bolshevik party to power in russia in 1917 directly led to the nightmare societies of germany and the soviet union in the 1920s 30s and beyond gellately expertly makes the case that stalin was the logical successor to lenin and dismisses the notion that lenins ideas while flawed were noble and ultimately corrupted by stalin it was lenin who . The central thesis of robert gellatelys work lenin stalin and hitler the age of social catastrophe is that the advent of lenin and the bolshevik party to power in russia in 1917 directly led to the nightmare societies of germany and the soviet union in the 1920s 30s and beyond gellately expertly makes the case that stalin was the logical successor to lenin and dismisses the notion that lenins ideas while flawed were noble and ultimately corrupted by stalin it was lenin who . In lenin stalin and hitler acclaimed historian robert gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time the soviet union and nazi germany but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political and ideological nature arguing that the tragedies endured by europe were inextricably linked through the dictatorships of lenin stalin and hitler gellately . A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped europe between 1914 and 1945 from the russian revolution through the second world warin lenin stalin and hitler