Stalin and War, 1918-1953

ISBN-13: 9781032043555 / Miękka / 2023 / 100 str.

David R. Shearer

Opis

Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator’s rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator’s perceptions of war and foreign threat.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stalin and War

1 War and the First Crisis: Poland and Peasants, 1918–1921, 1928–1932

2 Second Crisis: Germany, Japan, and the Threat of Insurgency, 1936–1939

3 Third Crisis: The Great Fatherland War, 1941–1945

4 The Final Threat, 1947–1953

Conclusion: Cycles of Violence

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

David R. Shearer is the Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History at the University of Delaware and a specialist in the history of Stalinism.