Stalin's curse : battling for communism in war and Cold War / Robert Gellately.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gellately, Robert, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.

Soviet Union.

Politics and government.

Communism--Europe--History--20th century.

Communism.

Europe.

History.

Physical Description:

477 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

Summary:

A chilling, skillfully delineated account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals 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 Roosevelt, Churchill, and the capitalist West.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-456) and index.

ISBN:

9780307269157

0307269159

OCLC:

795758101