Unlike traditional military historians, Topitsch approaches the subject as a sociologist. He analyzes the ideological structures of the totalitarian systems. He draws parallels between the Soviet and Nazi systems but ultimately argues that the Soviet system was more cunning in its geopolitical maneuvering, successfully manipulating the capitalist world into destroying itself.
In his provocative book, (originally published in German as Stalins Krieg ), Austrian philosopher and historian Ernst Topitsch ernst topitsch stalins warpdf