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Gerhard Wettig - Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: The Emergence and Development of East-West Conflict, 1939-1953 - 9780742555426 - V9780742555426
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Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: The Emergence and Development of East-West Conflict, 1939-1953

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Description for Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: The Emergence and Development of East-West Conflict, 1939-1953 hardcover. Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
The Cold War was a unique international conflict partly because Josef Stalin sought socialist transformation of other countries rather than simply the traditional objectives. This intriguing book, based on recently accessible Soviet primary sources, is the first to explain the emergence of the Cold War and its development in Stalin's lifetime from the perspective of Soviet policy-making. The book pays particular attention to the often-neglected "societal" dimension of Soviet foreign policy as a crucial element of the genesis and development of the Cold War. It is also the first to put German postwar development into the context of Soviet Cold ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742555426
SKU
V9780742555426
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Gerhard Wettig
Gerhard Wettig is an external research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History, Munich/Berlin.

Reviews for Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: The Emergence and Development of East-West Conflict, 1939-1953
Wettig has written an important book. . . . Wettig has utilized documents from Russian as well as East German and East European archives. Highly recommended.
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A distinguished German historian, Gerhard Wettig has written a solid and important study on the Soviet road to the Cold War. . . . The book firmly stands on its evidence ... Read more

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