Ron Collins
Feb 25, 2017 · 1 min read

The Meaning of Hitler — Sebastian Haffner

Why Lenin? Why Stalin? — Theodore H. Von Laue

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

The Burned-over District by Whitney R. Cross

(the final volume has nothing directly to do with Nazism nor socialism, but is rather an in-depth analysis of the origins of what the author calls “enthusiastic religion” in of all places, upstate New York from 1800 to 1840. It is the best breakdown of the causes and effects of mass psychosis across a whole population I have ever run across.)

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