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Polska i Europa w planach Stalina

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Exploiting new findings from former East Bloc archives and from long-ignored Western sources, this book presents a wholly new picture of the coming of World War II, Allied wartime diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War. The author reveals that the story - widely believed by historians and Western wartime leaders alike - that Stalin's purposes in European diplomacy from 1938 on were mainly defensive is a fantasy.

Indeed, this is one of the longest enduring products of Stalin's propaganda, of long-term political control of archival materials, and of the gullibility of Western observers.

The author argues that Stalin had concocted a plan for bringing about a general European war well before Hitler launched his expansionist program for the Third Reich. Stalin expected that Hitler's war, when it came, would lead to the internal collapse of the warring nations, and that military revolts and proletarian revolutions like those of World War I would break out in the capitalist countries.

This scenario foresaw the embattled proletarians calling for the assistance of the Red Army, which would sweep across Europe.

The book further shows that the wartime disputes between Stalin and his Western allies originated over the postwar redisposition of the territories Stalin had gained from his pact with Hitler. The situation was complicated by the incautious, unrestricted commitment of support to the Soviet Union first by Churchill and then by Roosevelt, and wartime circumstances provided cover to obscure these diplomatic failures.

The early origins of the Cold War described in this book differ dramatically from the usual accounts that see a sudden and surprising upwelling of Cold War antagonisms late in the War or early in the postwar period.

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Language
Polish
Pages
262

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Cover of: Stalin's drive to the West, 1938-1945
Stalin's drive to the West, 1938-1945: the origins of the Cold War
1995, Stanford University Press
in English
Cover of: Polska i Europa w planach Stalina
Polska i Europa w planach Stalina
1995, Książka i Wiedza
in Polish

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-[258]) and index.

Published in
Warszawa

Classifications

Library of Congress
DK273 .R3317 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
262 p. ;
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL427498M
Internet Archive
polskaieuropawpl0000raac
ISBN 10
8305128482
LCCN
98133839
Goodreads
4519254

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