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Stalin's wars : from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 /

This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin’s leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roberts, Geoffrey, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Stalin at war
  • Unholy alliance : Stalin's pact with Hitler
  • Grand illusions : Stalin and 22 June 1941
  • War of annihilation : Stalin versus Hitler
  • Victory at Stalingrad and Kursk : Stalin and his generals
  • The politics of war : Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt
  • Triumph and tragedy : Stalin's year of victories
  • Liberation, conquest, revolution : Stalin's aims in Germany and Eastern Europe
  • Last battles : Stalin, Truman and the end of the Second World War
  • The lost peace : Stalin and the origins of the Cold War
  • Generalissimo at home : the domestic context of Stalin's postwar foreign policy
  • Cold War confrontations : Stalin embattled
  • Conclusion : Stalin in the court of history.