2013, ISBN: 9780191644887

Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), The Second World War almost destroyed Stalin's Soviet Union. But victory over Nazi Germany provided the dictator… Mehr…

Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), 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 that was seemingly permanent and indestructible - and would last until the collapse of the Berlin Wall in1989. But what were Stalin's motives in this spectacular power grab? Was he no more than a latter-day Russian tsar, for whom Communist ideology was little more than a smoke-screen? Or was he simply a psychopathic killer? In Stalin's Curse, best-selling historian Robert Gellately firmly rejects both these simplifications of the man and his motives. Using a wealth of previously unavailable documentation, Gellately shows instead how Stalin's crimes are more accurately understood as the deeds of a ruthless and life-long Leninist revolutionary. Far from being a latter day 'Red Tsar' intent simply upon imperial expansion for its own sake, Stalin was in fact deeply inspired by the rhetoric of the Russian revolution and what Lenin had accomplished during the Great War. As Gellately convincingly shows, Stalin remained throughout these yearssteadfastly committed to a 'boundless faith' in Communism - and saw the Second World War as his chance to take up once again the old revolutionary mission to carry the Red Flag to the world. [PU: OUP Oxford], Seiten: 496, OUP Oxford, 2013<

ISBN: 9780191644887

A chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin’s true motives—and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the… Mehr…

A chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the capitalist West.At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Joseph Stalin persuasively played the role of a great world leader, whose primary concerns lay in international strategy and power politics, and not communist ideology. Now, using recently uncovered documents, Robert Gellately conclusively shows that, in fact, the dictator was biding his time, determined to establish Communist regimes across Europe and beyond. His actions during those years—and the poorly calculated responses to them from the West—set in motion what would eventually become the Cold War. Exciting, deeply engaging, and shrewdly perceptive, Stalin’s Curse is an unprecedented revelation of the sinister machinations of Stalin’s Kremlin. Digital Content>E-books>World History>Europe History>Europe History, OUP Oxford Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780191644887

The story of how Stalin ruthlessly built his Red Empire in the aftermath of World War II - and what inspired him to build it.; PDF; History & Transport > Humamities > Regional & national … Mehr…

The story of how Stalin ruthlessly built his Red Empire in the aftermath of World War II - and what inspired him to build it.; PDF; History & Transport > Humamities > Regional & national history > European history, OUP Oxford<

2013, ISBN: 9780191644887

Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: OUP Oxford], OUP Oxford, 2013

2013, ISBN: 9780191644887

Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, eBook Download (EPUB), eBooks, [PU: OUP Oxford]