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Author:

Gorodetsky, Gabriel, 1945-

Title:

Grand delusion : Stalin and the German invasion of Russia / Gabriel Gorodetsky.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xvi, 408 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
Stalin, Joseph,--1879-1953.
Staline, Joseph,--1879-1953.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945--URSS.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945--Histoire diplomatique.
Buitenlandse politiek.
Invasies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-393) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The premises of Stalin's foreign policy -- -- 'Potential enemies': London and Moscow at Loggerheads -- 'The truce of the bear' -- 'He who sups with the devil' -- Cripps's mission to Moscow -- -- The scramble for the Balkans -- Soviet-Italian collusion -- The soviet seizure of Bessarabia -- British schemes for the Balkans -- The Vienna award: The German encroachment in the Balkans -- Clash over the Danube -- -- On a collision course -- Drang nach Osten: The initial Plans -- Soviet intelligence and the German threat -- The bulgarian corridor to the Turkish straits -- -- The road to 'Barbarossa' -- Molotov's visit to Berlin -- Hitler opts for war -- Postcript: Preventive war? -- -- The curtan falls on the Balkans -- The British perspective: co-operation or embroilment? -- Bulgaria turns to the axis -- The urge for the straits -- -- The red army alert -- The Soviet defence plans -- The bankruptcy of the military -- The gathering clouds -- -- At the crossraods: The Yugoslav Coup d'Etat -- -- Churchill's warning to Stalin -- British intelligence and 'Barbarosa' -- The 'cryptic' warning -- Rumours of war and a separate peace -- The bogy of a separate peace -- Aftermath -- -- Japan: The avenue to Germany -- -- 'Appeasement': A new German-Soviet pact? -- -- "The special threatening military period' -- On the alert -- Emergency deployment -- -- The flight of Rudolf Hess to England -- The conspiracy -- The mission -- Fictitious negotiations -- 'Running the Bolshevik hare' -- Hess as perceived by the Kremlin -- -- On the eve of war -- 'Mobilization is war!' -- A Middle East diversion: The flaw in British intelligence -- The tass Communique -- -- Calamity -- Self-deception -- London: 'This avalanche breathing fire and death' -- 22 June 1941: The long weekend -- Conclusion

ISBN:

9780300084597
0300084595
9780300077926 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300077920 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

99012728

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)