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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... of his funeral. AKG Images. Stalin's funeral in March 1953. Malenkov, Molotov and Bulganin carry Stalin's coffin as it leaves the union building. AKG Images. Maps and Figure Maps 1 The Nazi–Soviet Pact, August–September 1939.
... March 12 March 9 April 10 June 22 June 25 June 28 June 21 July 27 September 12–14 November 25 November 18 December 1941 25 March 5 April 6 April 13 April 4 May 5 May 13 June 22 June 23 June 28 June 30 June 3 July. Chronology. of. Major.
... surrounded in Stalingrad Launch of Operation Ring at Stalingrad Leningrad blockade broken Casablanca declaration on unconditional surrender German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad 14 February 6 March 13 April 26 April 22 May.
... 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 May 6 June 23 June 3 July 20 July 1 August 21 August–28 September 5 ...
... March 25 April–16 May 15 June–12 July 29 July–15 October 7 August 16 August 4 November–12 December 1947 10 February 10 March–24 April Auschwitz captured by the Red Army Yalta conference Budapest falls to the Red Army USSR renounces its ...
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 |