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1 online resource (504 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Abbreviations and Glossary; Maps; Introduction; PART I: THE STALINIST REVOLUTION; 1. Making the Stalinist Revolution; 2. Exterminating Internal Threats to Socialist Unity; 3. War and Illusions; 4. Soviet Aims and Western Concessions; 5. Taking Eastern Europe; 6. The Red Army in Berlin; 7. Restoring the Stalinist Dictatorship in a Broken Society; PART II: SHADOWS OF THE COLD WAR; 8. Stalin and Truman: False Starts; 9. Potsdam, the Bomb, and Asia; 10. Soviet Retribution and Postwar Trials; 11. Soviet Retribution and Ethnic Groups; 12. Reaffirming Communist Ideology |
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PART III: STALIN'S COLD WAR13. New Communist Regimes in Poland and Czechoslovakia; 14. The Pattern of Dictatorships: Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary; 15. Communism in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece; 16. The Passing of the Communist Moment in Western Europe; 17. Stalin's Choices and the Future of Europe; 18. Stalinist Failures: Yugoslavia and Germany; 19. Looking at Asia from the Kremlin; 20. New Waves of Stalinization; 21. Stalin's Last Will and Testament; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations in Notes; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q |
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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 unprecedented task of creating a Red Empire that would soon stretch into the heart of Europe and Asia, displaying a supreme realism and ruthlessness that Machiavelli would surely have envied. By the time of his death in 1953, his new imperium was firmly in place, defining the contours of a Cold War world |
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Print version record |
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Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast |
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Communism.
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Communism
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191644870 |
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0191644870 |
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