Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great world leaders; his foreign policy; and his role in instigating the Cold War. While frankly exploring the full extent of Stalin's brutalities and their impact on the Soviet people, Roberts also uncovers evidence leading to the stunning conclusion that Stalin was both the greatest military leader of the twentieth century and a remarkable politician who sought to avoid the Cold War and establish a long-term detente with the capitalist world. By means of an integrated military, political, and diplomatic narrative, the author draws a sustained and compelling personal portrait of the Soviet leader. The resulting picture is fascinating and contradictory, and it will inevitably change the way we understand Stalin and his place in history. Roberts depicts a despot who helped save the world for democracy, a personal charmer who disciplined mercilessly, a utopian ideologue who could be a practical realist, and a warlord who undertook the role of architect of post-war peace. |
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From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 Geoffrey Roberts. Copyright © 2006 Geoffrey Roberts First printed in paperback ... Cold War: 1939–1953/Geoffrey Roberts. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–300–11204–1 (alk ...
From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 Geoffrey Roberts. Maps. and. Figure. Maps 1 The Nazi–Soviet Pact, August–September 1939 2 The Soviet–Finnish War, 1939–1940 3 Soviet Plans for Offensive War Against Germany, 1941 4 Operation Barbarossa ...
... Cold War Studies Program of the Davis Center for Russian Studies. Mark's prodigious researches in Russia's archives have been an inspiration to us all and his program has accumulated thousands of reels of microfilm of Soviet archives ...
From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 Geoffrey Roberts. 14 February 6 March 13 April 26 April 22 May 5–13 July 26 July 3 September 25 September 13 October 19–30 October 6 November 28 November–1 December 12 December 27 January 10 April 10 ...
From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 Geoffrey Roberts. 27 January 4–11 February 13 February 5 April 11 April 12 April 13 April 16 April 25 April–26 June 30 April 2 May 7–8 May 9 May 24 May 24 June 28 June 17 July–2 August 17 July 24 ...
Contents
Stalin and his Generals | |
Stalin Churchill and Roosevelt | |
Stalins Year of Victories | |
Stalins Aims in Germany and Eastern Europe | |
Stalin Truman and the End of the Second World | |
Stalin and the Origins of the Cold | |
The Domestic Context of Stalins Postwar Foreign Policy | |
Stalin Embattled | |
Stalin in the Court of History | |
Select Bibliography | 1957 |
Index | 1975 |