Timothy Snyder, “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” (Basic Books, 2011)
New Books in Eastern European Studies
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Comparing the Soviet Nazi Killing Policies
The book is not primarily a work of comparison. My method is to observe their deadly power on a certain territory. So my book is much more about when they do and when they don't interact than about what life was like in Moscow in 1936 compared to Berlin in 1936. The Nazis have a revolution which is basically in the future, at least for most of this time period. They understand that they can't do most of what they want to do inside or outside Germany without major cataclysmic war. For most of this period, 33 to 39, they're really 33 to 41. This means that regimes are operating on a different timescale.
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