Stalin's Curse Battling for Communism in War and Cold War

Name: Stalin's Curse Battling for Communism in War and Cold War
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ISBN: 9780307389459

ISBN-10: 0307389456

ISBN-13: 9780307389459

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Authors: Robert Gellately

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A chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin’s true motives—and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire—during the years in which he seemingly collaborated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the capitalist West. At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Stalin persuasively played the role of a great world leader. Even astute observers like George F. Kennan concluded that the United States and Great Britain should view Stalin as a modern-day tsarist-like figure whose primary concerns lay in international strategy and power politics, not in ideology. Now Robert Gellately uses…

Book details

List price: $21.50
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.17" wide x 8.00" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Abbreviations and Glossary


Maps


Introduction



The Stalinist Revolution



Making the Stalinist Revolution



Exterminating Internal Threats to Socialist Unity'



War and Illusions



Soviet Aims and Western Concessions



Taking Eastern Europe



The Red Army in Berlin



Restoring the Stalinist Dictatorship in a Broken Society



Shadows of the Cold War



Stalin and Truman: False Starts



Potsdam, the Bomb, and Asia



Soviet Retribution and Postwar Trials



Soviet Retribution and Ethnic Groups



Reaffirming Communist Ideology



Stalin's Cold War



New Communist Regimes in Poland and Czechoslovakia



The Pattern of Dictatorships: Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary



Communism in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece



The Passing of the Communist Moment in Western Europe



Stalin's Choices and the Future of Europe



Stalinist Failures: Yugoslavia and Germany



Looking at Asia from the Kremlin



New Waves of Stalinization



Stalin's Last Will and Testament


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations in Notes


Notes


Illustration Credits


Index