2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American historian at Princeton and Hoover Institution — author of the multi-volume Stalin biography (Paradoxes of Power, Waiting for Hitler, Tyrant) — the most comprehensive and analytically serious Stalin biography in English.
Richard Overy's 2004 comparative history of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union — examining the similarities and differences between the two totalitarian systems, their economic structures, terror mechanisms, and ideological foundations.