Stalin's curse battling for communism in war and Cold War
The Second World War almost destroyed Stalin's Soviet Union. But victory over Nazi Germany provided the dictator with his great opportunity: to expand Soviet power way beyond the borders of the Soviet state. Well before the shooting stopped in 1945, the Soviet leader methodically set about the...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf
2013
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 communists 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 post-war trials
- Settling 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
