Main group 1

• Berg, Anne, On screen and off: cinema and the making of Nazi Hamburg, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]Compulsory*
• Chapoutot, Johann, The law of blood: thinking and acting as a Nazi, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018Compulsory*
• Dobrenko, Evgenij Aleksandrovič, Stalinist cinema and the production of history: museum of the revolution, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, cop. 2008Compulsory*
• Geyer, Michael; Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Beyond totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism compared, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009Compulsory*
• Herf, Jeffrey, The Jewish enemy: Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006Compulsory*
• Hirsch, Francine, Race without the Practice of Racial Politics, Part of: Slavic review: American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies, vol. 61, no. 1, 2002, p. 30–43Compulsory*
• Ilic, Melanie., Women in the Stalin era, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001Compulsory* (pp 110–130 (20 p))
• Kershaw, Ian; Lewin, Moshe, Stalinism and nazism: dictatorships in comparison., Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996Compulsory*
• Kotljarchuk, Andrej, The Nordic Threat: Soviet Ethnic Cleansing on the Kola Peninsula, Huddinge, Södertörns högskola, 2014Compulsory* (pp 53–83 (30p))
• Kotljarchuk, Andrej, In the forge of Stalin: Swedish colonists of Ukraine in totalitarian experiments of the Twentieth Century, Stockholm, Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2014Compulsory*
• Kotljarchuk, Andrej, Propaganda of Hatred and the Great Terror: A Nordic Approach, Huddinge, Södertörns högskola, 2017Compulsory* (pp 91–121 (30 p))
• Lower, Wendy, New Ordering of Space and Time: Nazi Colonial Dreams in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, 1941-1944, Part of: German studies review, vol. 25, no. 2, 2002, p. 227–254Compulsory* (pp 227–254 (27 p))
• 1. Lüdtke, Alf, Male Bodies: Well Trained Muscles or Beer Bellies, Part of: Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives / edited by J. Lim, K. Petrone, uuuu-uuuu, p. pp.142–170 (28 p)Compulsory*
• Marina Mogilner, Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia, University of Nebraska Press, 2013
• Pisch, Anita, The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929-1953: archetypes, inventions and fabrications / Anita Pisch, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Reid, Susan.E, The New Soviet Woman and the Leader Cult in Soviet Art, Part of: Women in the Stalin era, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, p. 194–215 (21p)Compulsory*
• Stephenson, Jill, Fascism and gender: women under national socialism
• Weitz, Eric D, Racial Politics without the Concept of Race: Reevaluating Soviet Ethnic and National Purges, Part of: Slavic review: American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies, vol. 61, no. 1, 2002, p. 1–29Compulsory*
• Żyromski, Marek, The cult of personality as an important feature of totalitarian propaganda, Part of: Przegla̦d politologiczny, no. 2, 2019, p. 95–108Compulsory*

In addition to this mandatory literature, each student will, in consultation with the teacher, pick an academic book of their choice to read for their final essay (c 300 p)

Minor additional texts may be assigned during the course.

* Compulsory