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Totalitarian States and the History of Genocide

The goal of this essay is to discuss the comparison of the two most destructive totalitarian states in the twentieth century and no doubt in the modern world—Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia—and to explore the role that genocide played in the history of each. There have been other totalitarian states, such as Maoist China and Khmer Rouge Cambodia, that would fit the general categories I want to deal with here. But this essay will focus on the comparison between the Nazis and Soviets, because those are the histories I know best. Also, the very concept of totalitarianism, as we use...