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STALIN’S WAR: A NEW HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II
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A PRIZE-WINNING HISTORIAN REVEALS HOW STALIN–NOT HITLER–WAS THE
ANIMATING FORCE OF WORLD WAR II IN THIS MAJOR NEW HISTORY.
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World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle
between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But
Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia–and he was
certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple
theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did
not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to
Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was
Stalin’s war.
Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US
archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this
global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s
genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin
shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one
Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941-1945
fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition
between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as
his ultimate adversary.
McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was
rescued by the US and Britain’s self-defeating strategic moves,
beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards
agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin’s war machine,
McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American materiél from
warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and
explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the
foodstuffs which fed the Red Army.
This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin’s armies the
mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to
Beijing, for Communism.
A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin’s
War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current
world order.
Biographical Note:
Sean McMeekin is a professor of history at Bard College. The
award-winning author of several books, including The Russian
Revolution, July 1914, and The Ottoman Endgame, McMeekin lives in
Clermont, New York.
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