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Author : Timothy Dunmore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349050192
Author : Timothy Dunmore
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 0312748698
Author : Yoram Gorlizki,Oleg Khlevniuk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195347357
Following his country's victory over Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin was widely hailed as a great wartime leader and international statesman. Unchallenged on the domestic front, he headed one of the most powerful nations in the world. Yet, in the period from the end of World War II until his death, Stalin remained a man possessed by his fears. In order to reinforce his despotic rule in the face of old age and uncertain health, he habitually humiliated and terrorized members of his inner circle. He had their telephones bugged and even forced his deputy, Viacheslav Molotov, to betray his own spouse as a token of his allegiance. Often dismissed as paranoid and irrational, Stalin's behavior followed a clear political logic, contend Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk. Stalin's consistent and overriding goal after the war was to consolidate the Soviet Union's status as a superpower and, in the face of growing decrepitude, to maintain his own hold as leader of that power. To that end, he fashioned a system of leadership that was at once patrimonial-repressive and quite modern. While maintaining informal relations based on personal loyalty at the apex of the system, in the postwar period Stalin also vested authority in committees, elevated younger specialists, and initiated key institutional innovations with lasting consequences. Close scrutiny of Stalin's relationships with his most intimate colleagues also shows how, in the teeth of periodic persecution, Stalin's deputies cultivated informal norms and mutual understandings which provided the foundations for collective rule after his death. Based on newly released archival documents, including personal correspondence, drafts of Central Committee paperwork, new memoirs, and interviews with former functionaries and the families of Politburo members, this book will appeal to all those interested in Soviet history, political history, and the lives of dictators. Cold Peace was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2005.
Author : Francesca Gori,Silvio Pons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349251063
After the Cold War, its history must be reassessed as the opening of Soviet archives allows a much fuller understanding of the Russian dimension. These essays on the classic period of the Cold War (1945-53) use Soviet and Western sources to shed new light on Stalin's aims, objectives and actions; on Moscow's relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West European Communist Parties; and on the diplomatic relations of Britain, France and Italy with the USSR. The contributors are prominent European, Russian and American specialists.
Author : Nikolaĭ Valentinovich Romanovskiĭ,Zafar Imam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UVA:X030633521
Author : David L. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107007086
Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.
Author : Arnold A. Offner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0804747741
This book is a provocative and thoroughly documented reassessment of President Truman's profound influence on U.S. foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict and toward detente. Instead, he promoted an ideology and politics of Cold War confrontation that set the pattern for successor administrations."
Author : Kees Boterbloem
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773567597
The first Western scholar to have access to the records of the Communist Party of the Kalinin province, Boterbloem supplements archival evidence with published accounts and interviews with those who survived the last years of Stalin's life, taking us into their lives. Covering a wide range of topics, such as industry, agriculture, party affairs, repression, and education, Life and Death under Stalin looks at the complicated relationship between the political elite of the Communist Party, its rank and file members, and the Russian population during what was perhaps the grimmest period in Soviet history. The result is a fascinating study of how the postwar Stalinist regime dealt with those in the Kalinin Province, from ordinary Communist Party members and Red Army veterans to collective farmers and labour camp inmates.
Author : Gareth Pritchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049482501
An analysis of the Stalinisation of East Germany in the period of 1945 to 1953. The book focuses on the social roots of the emerging dictatorship. These were located above all in the traditions of the German labour movement and the history of the anti-Nazi resistance. The GDR was not imposed on the East German people at the point of Russian bayonets; it emerged out of the interaction between Soviet occupation policy and the politics of the East German working class.
Author : Peter Ruggenthaler
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498517447
Drawing on recently declassified Soviet archival sources, this book sheds new light on how the division of Europe came about in the aftermath of World War II. The book contravenes the notion that a neutral zone of states, including Germany, could have been set up between East and West. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin was determined to preserve control over its own sphere of German territory. By tracing Stalin's attitude toward neutrality in international politics, the book provides important insights into the origins of the Cold War.
Author : Yoram Gorlizki,Oleg Vitalʹevich Khlevniuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:804693179
In the period from the end of World War II until his death, Stalin became an increasingly distrustful despot. This book argues that Stalin's behaviour was not entirely paranoid and erratic but followed a clear political logic.
Author : Daniel R. Brower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022147370
This book explores, chronologically, the intertwined international, political, and economic aspects of contemporary world history from 1945 to the 1990s--showing how these three factors taken together explain in large measure the evolution of global conflict and cooperation--from the alliances of the Second World War, to the appearance of the superpowers following the Second World War, to regional peacekeeping after the end of the Cold War. Considers: The Second Twentieth Century and the Second World War; The Beginning of the Cold War, 1945-1947; The Resurgence of East Asia; New Nations in South Asia; Africa and Latin America in the Third World; Nationalism and War in the Middle East; The West and the Soviet Empire in the cold War, 1953- 1991; and Local Wars, Global Economy: The World in the Late Twentieth Century. Includes separate essays that explain or illuminate the significance of crucial events in a period or that introduce individuals (both powerful actors and powerless victims) whose experiences and beliefs bring to life the human dimensions of the events discussed. Makes frequent use of contemporary opinions and images of trends"--in the form of quotes from political leaders and observers, or reproductions of political posters and photographs. For anyone interested in Contemporary World History and World History Since 1945.
Author : Jamil Hasanli
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739168073
This book presents the ups and downs of the Soviet-Turkish relations during World War II and immediately after it. Hasanli draws on declassified archive documents from the United States, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to recreate a truepicture of the time when the "Turkish crisis" of the Cold War broke out. It explains why and how the friendly relations between the USSR and Turkey escalated into enmity, led to the increased confrontation between these two countries, and ended up with Turkey's entry into NATO. Hasanli uses recently-released Soviet archive documents to shed light on some dark points of the Cold War era and the relations between the Soviets and the West. Apart from bringing in an original point of view regarding starting of the Cold War, the book reveals some secret sides of the Soviet domestic and foreign policies. The book convincingly demonstrates how Soviet political technologists led by Josef Stalin distorted the picture of a friendly and peaceful country—Turkey—intothe image of an enemy in the minds of millions of Soviet citizens.
Author : Sven G. Holtsmark,Iver B. Neumann,Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0333602307
This volume brings together a series of recent analyses spanning the whole period of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. The essays - by Western, Russian, and East European experts - present a wide and varied picture of the period. The authors use newly available materials to investigate different aspects of Soviet-East European relations - party affairs, military and political coordination, cultural and mass media policies, as well as the crises and conflicts emerging from the relationship itself.
Author : Andrew Defty
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 9780714683614
This book demonstrates that propoganda was a primary concern of the postwar governments of Clement Atlee and Winston Churchill and traces the implementation of Britain's propoganda policy at all levels.