Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953

The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all of the European countries with which it came
into contact. This volume considers each aspect of the encounter of Stalin with Europe: the attempt to create a kind of European state by accelerating the European model of industrial development in the USSR; mass murder in anticipation of a war against European powers; the actual contact with
Europe's greatest power, Nazi Germany, first as ally and then as enemy; four years of war fought chiefly on Soviet territory and bringing untold millions of deaths, including much of the Holocaust; and finally the reestablishment of the Soviet system, not just in prewar territory of the USSR, but in
Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and East Germany.


Author: Timothy Snyder
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/01/2014
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780199945580

About the Author

Timothy Snyder is the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, specializing in the history of central and eastern Europe. He is the author of numerous books, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.

Ray Brandon is a freelance translator, historian, and researcher based in Berlin. He is the co-editor of The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization.

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