1st Edition

Stalin and the Inevitable War, 1936-1941

By Silvio Pons Copyright 2002
240 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This is a study of the responses of the Soviet Union to the European crises which led to World War II. It is based on a substantial body of political and diplomatic documents that has become accessible to scholars since the opening up of former Soviet archives in 1992.

Prologue - Stalin and the threat of war. The Western crises - the Rhineland; the Western crises - Spain; the internal crises; the Eastern crises - Czechoslovakia; the Eastern crises - Poland; the war crises. Epilogue - Stalin and the war.

Biography

Silvio Pons