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Zusatztext eloquently tells the story of the astonishing transformation in the global fortunes of Communist rule in the wake of a devastating war, and of the central role of Stalin in this process. Informationen zum Autor Robert Gellately is Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University. His publications have been translated into over twenty languages and include the widely acclaimed Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: the Age of Social Catastrophe (2007), Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (2001), and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945 (1990), the last two also published by Oxford University Press. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida. Klappentext The story of how Stalin ruthlessly built his 'Red Empire' in the aftermath of World War II - and what inspired him to build it. Zusammenfassung The story of how Stalin ruthlessly built his 'Red Empire' in the aftermath of World War II - and what inspired him to build it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: The Stalinist Revolution; 1 Making the Stalinist Revolution; 2 Exterminating Internal Threats to Socialist Unity; 3 War and Illusions; 4 Soviet Aims and Western Concessions; 5 Taking Eastern Europe; 6 The Communists in Berlin; 7 Restoring the Stalinist Dictatorship in a Broken Society; Part II: Shadows of the Cold War; 8 Stalin and Truman: False Starts; 9 Potsdam! the Bomb! and Asia; 10 Soviet Retribution and Post-War Trials; 11 Settling Retribution and Ethnic Groups; 12 Reaffirming Communist Ideology; Part III: Stalins' Cold War; 13 New Communist Regimes in Poland and Czechoslovakia; 14 The Pattern of Dictatorships: Bulgaria! Romania! and Hungary; 15 Communism in Yugoslavia! Albania! and Greece; 16 The Passing of the Communist Moment in Western Europe; 17 Stalin's Choices and the Future of Europe; 18 Stalinist Failures: Yugoslavia and Germany; 19 Looking at Asia from the Kremlin; 20 New Waves of Stalinization; 21 Stalin's Last Will and Testament; Epilogue; Index ...
