1st Edition
Stalin and War, 1918-1953 Patterns of Repression, Mobilization, and External Threat
By David R. Shearer
Copyright 2024
102 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
102 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
102 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator’s rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator’s perceptions of war and foreign threat.
Discussion focuses on the crisis years 1928-1932, 1936-1939, the Great Fatherland... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Stalin and War
1 War and the First Crisis: Poland and Peasants, 1918–1921, 1928–1932
2 Second Crisis: Germany, Japan, and the Threat of Insurgency, 1936–1939
3 Third Crisis: The Great Fatherland War, 1941–1945
4 The Final Threat, 1947–1953
Conclusion: Cycles of Violence
Bibliography
Index
Biography
David R. Shearer is the Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History at the University of Delaware and a specialist in the history of Stalinism.
