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100 1 _aGellately, Robert,
_d1943-
_94659
245 1 0 _aStalin's curse :
_bbattling for communism in war and Cold War /
_cRobert Gellately.
300 _a477 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 397-456) and index.
505 0 _aThe Stalinist revolution -- Making the Stalinist revolution -- Exterminating internal threats to socialist unity -- War and illusions -- Soviet aims and Western concessions -- Taking Eastern Europe -- The communists in Berlin -- Restoring the Stalinist dictatorship in a broken society -- Shadows of the Cold War -- Stalin and Truman: false starts -- Potsdam, the bomb and Asia -- Soviet retribution and post-war trials -- Settling retribution and ethnic groups -- Reaffirming communist ideology -- Stalin's Cold War -- New communist regimes in Poland and Czechoslovakia -- The pattern of dictatorships: Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary -- Communism in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece -- The passing of the communist moment in Western Europe -- Stalin's choices and the future of Europe -- Stalinist failures: Yugoslavia and Germany -- Looking at Asia from the Kremlin -- New waves of Stalinization -- Stalin's last will and testament.
600 1 0 _aStalin, Joseph,
_d1879-1953.
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650 0 _aCommunism
_zEurope
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_94661
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xPolitics and government
_y1936-1953.
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