Stalin's curse : battling for communism in war and Cold War / by Robert Gellately.
| Author/creator | Gellately, Robert, 1943- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. |
| Description | 477 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Stalinist revolution -- Making the Stalinist revolution -- Exterminating internal threats to socialist unity -- War and illusions -- Soviet aims and Western concessions -- Taking Eastern Europe -- The communists in Berlin -- Restoring the Stalinist dictatorship in a broken society -- Shadows of the Cold War -- Stalin and Truman: false starts -- Potsdam, the bomb and Asia -- Soviet retribution and post-war trials -- Settling retribution and ethnic groups -- Reaffirming communist ideology -- Stalin's Cold War -- New communist regimes in Poland and Czechoslovakia -- The pattern of dictatorships: Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary -- Communism in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece -- The passing of the communist moment in Western Europe -- Stalin's choices and the future of Europe -- Stalinist failures: Yugoslavia and Germany -- Looking at Asia from the Kremlin -- New waves of Stalinization -- Stalin's last will and testament. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-456) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012028768 |
| ISBN | 9780307269157 |
| ISBN | 0307269159 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | DK268.S8 G44 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |