History 2145A/B Lecture : March 9 - Appeasement and Terror.docx
19 Apr 2012
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Radicalization entropy wheels coming off the bus fascism/nazism in its most extreme case. First world war 9 million dead (mostly military) Second world war 55 million dead (mostly civilian) Stalinist terror: the purges; 1934-1938 and the show trials; 1936-1938. Estimated range 400,000 to 1 million killed by stalinist courts and police. Prison camps gulag: 600,000 prisoners in 1930 to 7 million prisoners by 1937. Est. by end of 1945, gulag camp system held 15 million prisoners. You don"t get the most radical platform of the party right away, happens over time. Didn"t have a secret police like germany or russia. First earned the title totalitarian but is actually the least totalitarian state by the end of this period. Comes from nowhere (mussolini had previously said italy had no jewish problem on record telling italian jews not to look for a homeland in the holy land; they are italian, not exclusively.
