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Author:

Gellately, Robert, 1943-

Title:

Stalin's curse : battling for communism in war and Cold War / Robert Gellately.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

477 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

Stalin, Joseph,--1879-1953.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.
Communism--Europe--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-456) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0307269159
9780307269157

OCLC:

(OCoLC)795758101

LCCN:

2012028768

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