|aStalin's war :|ba new history of World War II /|cSean McMeekin
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|aNew history of World War II
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|aFirst edition
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|aNew York City :|bBasic Books,|c2021
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|aviii, 831 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm
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|aunmediated|bn|2rdamedia
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 673-812) and index
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|tIntroduction: Whose war? --|tPrologue: May 5, 1941 --|gI:|tBefore the storm : the main currents of Soviet foreign policy, 1917-1938.|tWorld revolution ;|tStalin makes his mark ;|tStrategic coup in Washington ;|tBehind the Popular Front --|gII:|t"Huge and hateful": The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.|tCourting Hitler ;|tGangster pact, Part I: Poland ;|tGangster pact, Part II: Finland ;|tMaximum danger: Finland, Baku, and the Katyn Massacre ;|tStalin strikes: The Baltic, Bessarabia, and Bukovina ;|tShowdown at the Danube delta ;|tSummit in Berlin: The four-power pact? ;|tHitler bars the door --|gIII:|tPreparing for Armageddon.|tMobilizing the proletariat ;|tThe battle for Belgrade ;|tOperation Snow: Stalin secures his eastern flank ;|tTo the brink ;|tHitler smashes Stalin's war machine ;|tTerror at the Front--and in the rear ;|tWar for aluminum ;|tOn the ropes --|gIV:|tCapitalist lifeline.|tLifting the moral embargo ;|tThe hinge of fate: December 1941 ;|tCapitalist rope ;|tJust-in-time delivery: Lend-Lease and Stalingrad --|gV:|tSecond front.|tKeeping Stalin happy: unconditional surrender and Katyn ;|tStopping citadel: the second front? ;|tOperation Tito ;|tTeheran and Cairo ;|tSecond Front --|gVI:|tPlunder.|tWarsaw ;|tSoviet high tide in Washington: the Morgenthau Plan ;|tMoscow and Yalta: unfinest hour of the Anglo-Americans ;|tBooty ;|tRed Star over Asia: the final wages of Lend-Lease --|tEpilogue: Stalin's slave empire and the price of victory
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|aWorld War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia--and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Josef Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler's war; it was Stalin's war. Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin's War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler's genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941-1945 fulfill Stalin's goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the "Anglo-Saxon" capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary. McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued by the US and Britain's self-defeating strategic moves, beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin's war machine, McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American matériel from warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the foodstuffs that fed the Red Army. This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin's armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism. A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin's War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current world order. --|cFrom dust jacket
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|aStalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953
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|aWorld War, 1939-1945|zSoviet Union
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|aWorld War, 1939-1945|xDiplomatic history
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|aWorld War, 1939-1945|zPacific Area
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|iOnline version:|aMcMeekin, Sean, 1974-|tStalin's war.|bFirst edition.|dNew York City : Basic Books, 2021|z9781541672772|w(OCoLC)1246781682
Sean McMeekin is a professor of history at Bard College. The award-winning author of several books, including The Russian Revolution, July 1914, and The Ottoman Endgame, McMeekin lives in Clermont, New York.
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