Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nazism-communism: delineating the comparison / Martin Malia -- The uses and abuses of comparison / Tzvetan Todorov -- Worstward ho: on comparing totalitarianisms / Irving Wohlfarth -- Imagining the absolute: mapping Western conceptions of evil / Steven E. Aschheim -- Remembrance and knowledge: nationalism and Stalinism in comparative discourse / Dan Diner -- Comparative evil: degrees, numbers and the problem of measure / Berel Lang -- The institutional frame: totalitarianism, extermination and the state / Sigrid Meuschel -- Asian communist regimes: the other experience of the extreme / Jean-Louis Margolin -- A lesser evil? Italian fascism in/and the totalitarian equation / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- On the moral blindness of communism / Steven Lukes -- Totalitarian attempts, anti-totalitarian networks: thoughts on the taboo of comparison / Ulrike Ackermann -- If Hitler invaded Hell: distinguishing between Nazism and communism during World War II, the Cold War and since the fall of European communism / Jeffrey Herf -- The memory of crime and the formation of indentity / Gabriel Motzkin -- Mirror-writing of a good life? / Helmut Dubiel.