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R. C. Raack - Stalin’s Drive to the West, 1938-1945: The Origins of the Cold War - 9780804724159 - V9780804724159
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Stalin’s Drive to the West, 1938-1945: The Origins of the Cold War

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Description for Stalin’s Drive to the West, 1938-1945: The Origins of the Cold War Hardback. This is a powerfully documented argument which contributes to the current reassessment of the Cold War and its origins. It shows that Stalin hoped for a general European war well before Hitler began World War II. Num Pages: 280 pages, 27 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUA; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 605.

Exploiting new findings from former East Bloc archives and from long-ignored Western sources, this book presents a wholly new picture of the coming of World War II, Allied wartime diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War. The author reveals that the story - widely believed by historians and Western wartime leaders alike - that Stalin's purposes in European diplomacy from 1938 on were mainly defensive is a fantasy. Indeed, this is one of the longest enduring products of Stalin's propaganda, of long-term political control of archival materials, and of the gullibility of Western observers.

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The book further shows that the wartime disputes between Stalin and his Western allies originated over the postwar redisposition of the territories Stalin had gained from his pact with Hitler. The situation was complicated by the incautious, unrestricted commitment of support to the Soviet Union first by Churchill and then by Roosevelt, and wartime circumstances provided cover to obscure these diplomatic failures. The early origins of the Cold War described in this book differ dramatically from the usual accounts that see a sudden and surprising upwelling of Cold War antagonisms late in the War or early in the postwar period.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804724159
SKU
V9780804724159
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