Stalin and the Fate of Europe - Norman M. Naimark
Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley AwardWinner of the U.S.-Russia Relations Book PrizeA Financial Times Best History Book of the YearThe Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable--the…
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Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley AwardWinner of the U.S.-Russia Relations Book PrizeA Financial Times Best History Book of the YearThe Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable--the acclaimed author of Stalin's Genocides shows how postwar Europeans fought to determine their own destinies.Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more open to a settlement on the continent than we have thought. Through revealing case studies from Poland and Yugoslavia to Denmark and Albania, Naimark recasts the early Cold War by focusing on Europeans' fight to determine their future.As nations devastated by war began rebuilding, Soviet intentions loomed large. Stalin's armies controlled most of the eastern