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This academic book, largely inaccessible to those without a decent background knowledge of the topic, discusses the way in which authoritarian violence both allowed and was causal of the rise of Nazism and the dominance of the Nazi party in the period between the two World Wars, and specifically focusing on the use of storm troopers prior to Hitler's actual rise to full power in Germany. Extensive historical detail is provided and analyzed, with a great deal of searching through primary records form the period investigated in order to demonstrate the harbingers of Nazism before the party and its ideals were actually solidified. This gives an understanding of the way in which Nazism truly developed, not as a belief system or perspective that imposed violence, but rather as one that explicitly and directly grew out of existing political violence -- an opportune movement rather than a truly controlling one at the outset, the author concludes.

Paul, D. (1984). Eugenics and the left. Journal of the History of Ideas 45(4): 567-90.

Examining the concept of eugenics -- modifying the genetic disposition of a population and of individual offspring through a variety of means -- as a political and sociological practice, this author points out how directly the motives for eugenics can be and in fact were supplied by socialist and communist perspectives, and were not merely the domain of the far right as is often thought to be the case. A wide variety of