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Richard Overy's exhaustive (and at times exhausting) examination of the Hitler and Stalin regimes follows Plutarch's ancient "parallel lives" model, with an obvious hat tip to Allan Bullock's somewhat similar treatment Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (though Overy states in his introduction that his treatment avoids the personal lives of the two dictators). Since I haven't read Bullock's book, I can't really comment on that comparison/distinction, though I take Overy at his word.
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Sep 08, 2025
Prashant
marked it as to-read
