Assured victory how Stalin the great won the war but lost the peace 1st Edition by Albert L Weeks ISBN 0313391653 978-0313391651

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ISBN 10: 0313391653

ISBN 13: 978-0313391651

Author: Albert L Weeks

This book documents dictator Joseph Stalin’s brilliant tactics as well as missteps in taking preemptive actions that guaranteed ultimate victory over the German invaders. It also covers the policies implemented after the war that made the Soviet Union a menace to world peace and led to collapse of Soviet rule.

A detailed reexamination of historical facts indicates that Stalin could deserve to be regarded as a “great leader.” Yet Stalin clearly failed as his nation’s leader in a post-World War II milieu, where he delivered the Cold War instead of rapid progress and global cooperation. It is the proof of both Stalin’s brilliance and blunders that makes him such a fascinating figure in modern history.

Today, most of the Russian population acknowledges that Stalin achieved “greatness.” The Soviet dictator’s honored place in history is largely due to Stalin successfully attending to the Soviet Union’s defense needs in the 1930s and 1940s, and leading the USSR to victory in the war on the Eastern Front against Nazi Germany and its allies. This book provides an overdue critical investigation of how the Soviet leader’s domestic and foreign policies actually helped produce this victory, and above all, how Stalin’s timely support of a wartime alliance with the Western capitalist democracies assured the defeat of the Axis powers in 1945.

Table of contents: 

Part 1 Age of Dictators

1 Stalin: The Twentieth Century’s Second Dictator
Unique Dictator
Advantages Enjoyed by Stalin
Contrasts with Western Leadership
Stalin Uses Diplomacy as a Weapon
Stalin’s Personal Qualities
Dealing with the West and America
Stalin’s Use of Bluff
A “Master Politician”

2 Stalin’s Methods and Accomplishments
The Stalin Cult
Machiavellian Methods
Legacy of the Cautious Leader

3 The Vozhd’ Prepares for War
Consolidating the Home Front
Were the Purges Justified?
The Kirov Case
Mainstream Historiography on the Purges
The Watershed Year

4 The World as Seen from Stalin’s Kremlin
Foundation of German-Soviet Relations
Red Army-German Military Collaboration
Soviet-Fascist Totalitarian Kinship
Treacherous Currents of Europe

5 Soviet Two-Track Policy
Counterpoint of Early Soviet Diplomacy
Peredyshki
Fomenting Inter-Imperialist Tensions
Diplomacy in Stalin’s Industrialization
Stalin’s Emphasis on Defense
Trail of Broken “Friendship” Treaties
Comintern Factor
United Front (Lenin)/Popular Front (Stalin)

6 Soviet Pro-German Posture
Early Roots
The Brest-Litovsk Precedent
Straws in the Wind
The “Communazi” Factor
Stalin Navigates European Waters
Far East Dangers

Part 2 Stalin Prepares for War

7 The Myth of Collective Security
League Weaknesses
Soviet View toward the League
Stalin’s Cautiousness

8 America in Stalin’s Future
Stalin Watches America’s Slide toward War
Stalin’s American Affinities
Stalin at the Eighteenth Party Congress
Stalin’s Defensism
Stalin on the West’s Plans
The Significance of Stalin’s Hints
Stalin and the CPUSA
American “Colossus”
Stalin’s Hoped-for Lend-Lease
A “Strange” U.S.-Soviet Alliance
Stalin Defends State Interests
Stalin and FDR
Spies and Agents of Influence
Stalin among the Big Three

9 Nazi-Soviet Pacts and Aftermath
Controversy over Stalin’s Defense Policies
Specifics of Nazi-Soviet Pacts and Protocols
Carving up the World
New Tensions
Gaining Territory by the Pacts

10 Pre-Barbarossa War Plans
Stalin’s First Reactions
Early German Successes
Stalin’s Behavior on the Dramatic Day
Development of Historiography on Stalin’s Reactions
New Versions of Stalin’s Behavior on June 22
Additional Observations and Issues

Part 3 The War and Its Aftermath

11 Stalin Bluffs and Defeats Wehrmacht
Reassessing Stalin
Stalin Bluffs in the “Great Game”
Barbarossa Materializes
Stalin’s Not-So-Blind Eye
The “Bluff”
Stalin’s Costly Errors
Soviet Weaknesses
Stalin Approves a Modified Kutuzov Strategy
Did the Bluff Pay Off?
Preventing a Russian “Gleiwitz”
Stalin’s Military Defense Plan
How “Unprepared” Was the RKKA?

12 Epilogue: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Hints of a Coming Cold War
Cold War Chronology
A “New” Stalin?
Today’s Russian Historians on the Cold War
Assessing Stalin’s Alleged Greatness

Appendix I Stalin, Soviet Premier, Broadcast to the People of the Soviet Union
Appendix II Stalin’s Biography in Current Russian Military Encyclopedia
Appendix III Stalin’s Speech at the Reception in the Kremlin in Honor of the Commanders of the Red Army

Bibliography
Notes
Index

 

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