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Have the Roles of Hitler and Stalin been Exaggerated?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Alan Bullock
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AS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY DRAWS TO ITS END, TWO MEN, Hitler and Stalin, appear to stand out even in its violent history for the scale of the suffering and destruction which they inflicted on millions of innocent people. But at once, the question arises: how far have the roles of Hitler and Stalin been exaggerated? Is it any longer possible, in the twentieth century, to hold individuals responsible for events on this scale? Should the responsibility rest not with these men but with the movements and regimes with which they are identified? This is the question which I want to discuss.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 65 - 83
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1997

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