Stalin and Europe
Subtitle: imitation and domination, 1928-1953
By: edited by Timothy Snyder and Ray Brandon
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780199945566; 9780199945580
Subjects: Foreign relations
Description: "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 re-establishment of the Soviet system, not just in prewar territory of the USSR, but in Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, the Baltic Sttes, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and East Germany." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Stalin and Europe: Imitation and domination, 1928-1953 / Timothy Snyder; title: Stalin's empire: the gulag and police colonization in the Soviet Union in the 1930s / Lynne Viola; title: Violence, flight, and hunger: the Sino-Kazakh border and the Kazakh famine / Sarah Cameron; title: Stalin, espionage, and counterespionage / Hiroaki Kuromiya and Andrzej Peploński; title: The Polish underground under Soviet occupation, 1939-1941 / Rafał Wnuk; title: Soviet economic policy in annexed eastern Poland, 1939-1941 / Marek Wierzbicki; title: Lviv under Soviet rule, 1939-1941 / Christoph Mick; title: German economic plans for the occupied Soviet Union and their implementation, 1941-1944 / Alex J. Kay; title: The holocaust in Ukraine history; title: historiography; title: memory / Dieter Pohl; title: Belarusian partisans and German reprisals / Timm C. Richter; title: Stalin's wartime vision of the peace, 1939-1945 / Geoffrey Roberts; title: Stalin, Soviet policy, and the establishment of a communist bloc in eastern Europe, 1941-1948 / Mark Kramer; title: Stalin, the split with Yugoslavia, and Soviet-east European efforts to reassert control, 1948-1953 / Mark Kramer.