Stalin's Cold War
Subtitle: Soviet Foreign Policy, Democracy and Communism in Bulgaria, 1941-1948 (Global Conflict Since 1945)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780230521384
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; International relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; International Relations - General; Modern - 20th Century; Political Science / International Relations; 20th century; Bulgaria; Cold War; Communism; History; Political parties
Description: "Stalin's Cold War offers a major new interpretation of the Soviet leader's role in the gestation of the Cold War. Based on important new evidence from Soviet, Bulgarian and British archives, the book reveals Stalin's genuine, if inconsistent, efforts to preserve his World War II alliance with the United States and Britain and to encourage a degree of cooperation between communists and democratic parties in Eastern Europe. The book demonstrates Stalin's gradual but inexorable shift to ideological and geopolitical confrontation, driven by the dynamics of international and domestic conflicts and his own brutal urge for control."--Jacket.