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...They developed over time," says Lord Bullock -- he became a life peer in 1976 -- so he decided to study that process in a comparative, parallel biography of the two, something no one else has done. Bullock is the author of Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952), the first great postwar biography of the dictator. "I'm a narrative historian, and in the course of the narrative," he says, "it comes clear" precisely how Hitler and Stalin rose to supreme power in Germany and Russia...
Though Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (Knopf; 1,081 pages; $35) runs a densely written thousand pages, detailing the two lives stage by stage, not everything comes clear. Most readers willing to take the long journey will hope that Bullock's exhaustive analysis of the biographical literature and newly opened archives might somehow explain what caused Hitler and Stalin. There was something inhumanly dark and cold in both leaders that made them willing to do literally anything to fulfill what they felt was their mission...
When more than 60% of Tatarstan's voters spurned the last-ditch appeals of Russian President Boris Yeltsin and said a fervent yes to sovereignty last week, many Russians saw an ominous parallel. Recalling Mikhail Gorbachev's futile struggle to preserve the motley amalgam of nations forged into the Soviet Union, they feared that their own Russian Federation might be heading for disintegration. "We are not only on the brink of a crisis," said Valeri Zorkin, chairman of the Constitutional Court, "but on the edge of an abyss...
Since the national sorority organization won't approve campus chapters without Harvard's recognition, it is unlikely that female sororities will ever parallel the growth of fraternities...
...coincidence that Rudolph's exploits parallel those of his defiant forebears. Piet was named for a relative who commanded the cannons in the 1838 battle of Blood River, when the Boers defeated the Zulus and won control of considerable territory. As a boy, Rudolph spent hours listening to tales told by an old soldier who had been blinded by wounds received in the turn-of-the- century Anglo-Boer conflict...