Cox's Historiography

Front 1

Hitler's Personality Cult

Back 1

Hitler's Personality cult made people idolize and Adore him - Kershaw

Front 2

SS

Back 2

The SS became actively politically and had great power, detaining thousands - Sax, American Historian 1992

Front 3

Hitler's Popularity

Back 3

Hitler's huge platform of popularity made his own power position ever more unassailable- Kershaw

Front 4

Hitler's Military

Back 4

The extent of the military development cannot be too large, nor its pace too swift- Kershaw

Front 5

Stalin Fear

Back 5

Such was the extent of fear during the purges that survival became the sole goal - Gill "Stalinism" 1990

Front 6

Stalin 5 year plans

Back 6

Demonstrates the huge strain of the 5 year plans, how far Russia was behind and how far it was from Modernisation- Nove, 1992 "An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-91"

Front 7

Stalin Soviet Official

Back 7

Shows huge cost of collectivisation as well as determination to keep it. Questions if it was a success of Failure- Kravchenko, 1947, "I Choose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official"

Front 8

Stalin Modernisation

Back 8

Russian Society was freed to change to keep up with modernisation- Ward, 1993, "Stalin's Regime"

Front 9

Stalin's Goals

Back 9

Needless to say the new targets were beyond practical possibility- Ward?

Front 10

Stalin- Change

Back 10

A socio-economic System in existence for 500 years vanished for ever - Ward?