Assured Victory : How "Stalin the Great" Won the War, but Lost the Peace
Albert. Weeks
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (321 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover ; Assured Victory ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; Preface ; Note on Transliteration ; Introduction ; Fallout from the Medvedev Decree ; Poll on Stalin's Greatness ; Revising School Textbooks ; Historiographers' View Toward Writing History ; PART ONE: Age of Dictators. - 1 Stalin: The Twentieth Century's Second Dictator Unique Dictator ; Advantages Enjoyed by Stalin ; Contrasts with Western Leadership ; Stalin Uses Diplomacy as a Weapon ; Stalin's Personal Qualities ; Dealing with the West and America ; Stalin's Use of Bluff ; A "Master Politician" ; 2 Stalin's Methods and Accomplishments ; The Stalin Cult. - Machiavellian Methods Legacy of the Cautious Leader ; 3 The Vozhd' Prepares for War ; Consolidating the Home Front ; Were the Purges Justified? ; The Kirov Case ; Mainstream Historiography on the Purges ; The Watershed Year ; 4 The World as Seen from Stalin's Kremlin ; Foundation of German-Soviet Relations ; Red Army-German Military Collaboration. - Soviet-Fascist Totalitarian Kinship Treacherous Currents of Europe ; 5 Soviet Two-Track Policy ; Counterpoint of Early Soviet Diplomacy, 1918-1930s ; Peredyshki; Fomenting Inter-Imperialist Tensions ; Diplomacy in Stalin's Industrialization ; Stalin's Emphasis on Defense ; Trail of Broken "Friendship" Treaties ; Comintern Factor ; United Front (Lenin)/Popular Front (Stalin) ; 6 Soviet Pro-German Posture ; Early Roots ; The Brest-Litovsk Precedent (1918). - Stalin on the West's Plans. - Straws in the Wind The "Communazi" Factor ; Stalin Navigates European Waters ; Far East Dangers ; PART TWO: Stalin Prepares for War; 7 The Myth of Collective Security ; League Weaknesses ; Soviet View toward the League ; Stalin's Cautiousness ; 8 America in Stalin's Future ; Stalin Watches America's Slide toward War ; Stalin's American Affinities ; Stalin at the Eighteenth Party Congress ; Stalin's Defensism. - A detailed reexamination of historical facts indicates that Stalin could deserve to be regarded as a ""great leader."" Yet Stalin clearly failed as his nation's leader in a post-World War II milieu, where he delivered the Cold War instead of rapid progress and global cooperation. It is the proof of both Stalin's brilliance and blunders that makes him such a fascinating figure in modern history. Today, most of the Russian population acknowledges that Stalin achieved ""greatness."" The Soviet dictator's honored place in history is largely due to Stalin successfully attending to the Soviet Un
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| ISBN | 9780313391651
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