Stalin and Europe

Zusatztext I read this fascinating, lively collection through from beginning to end in one sitting. That speaks highly for the quality and the challenges that each of the pieces offers. The contributions are primarily from top national and international experts in the field, including a number of rising stars and scholars from Central Europe. All of the essays are grounded in the archives and based on original research. The volume features a variety of methods, perspectives, and approaches, from newer social history to more traditional military and diplomatic history. The collection as a whole reminds us of the seamless transition from the 1930s in the Soviet Union, into war and conquest, and on into the Cold War. Informationen zum Autor Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University. Ray Brandon is freelance translator, historian, and researcher based in Berlin. Klappentext The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all of the European countries with which it came into contact. This book considers each aspect of the encounter of Stalin with Europe: the attempt to create a kind of European state by accelerating the European model of industrial development; mass murder in anticipation of a war against European powers; the actual contact with Europe's greatest power, Nazi Germany, during four years of war fought chiefly on Soviet territory and bringing untold millions of deaths, including much of the Holocaust; and finally the reestablishment of the Soviet system, not just in the reestablished Soviet system, but in the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and East Germany. The contributors take up not just high politics but also the experiences of the populations that were affected by them. Divided into four parts, the book deals with Soviet politics and actions mainly in the 1930s; the Soviet invasion and occupation of Poland; German aggression against the Soviet Union as well as plans for occupation and their improvised implementation; and Soviet wartime plans for the postwar period. This volume brings together the best work from a multi-year project sponsored by the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, including scholars who have worked with archival materials in numerous countries and whose research is often published in other languages. Zusammenfassung A volume of original essays that reassesses the Soviet Union's impact on Europe, before, during, and after World War II. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Introduction: Soviet History and European History- Timothy Snyder 1. The Gulag and Police Colonization in the Soviet Union- Lynne Viola 2. The Sino-Kazakh Border and the Kazakh Famine- Sarah Cameron 3. Stalin, Espionage, and Counter-Espionage- Hiroaki Kuromiya and Andrzej Peplonski 4. The Polish Underground under Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941- Rafal Wnuk 5. Soviet Economic Policy in Annexed Eastern Poland, 1939-1941- Marek Wierzbicki 6. Lviv under Soviet Rule, 1939-1941- Christoph Mick 7. German Economic Plans for the Soviet Union, 1941-1944- Alex J. Kay 8. The Holocaust in Ukraine- Dieter Pohl 9. Belarusian Partisans and German Reprisals- Timm Richter 10. Stalin's Wartime Vision of the Peace, 1939-1945- Geoffrey Roberts 11. The Consolidation of a Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1941-1948- Mark Kramer 13. The Tito-Stalin Split and the Reconsolidation of the Bloc, 1948-1953- Mark Kramer Index ...

Autorentext
Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University. Ray Brandon is freelance translator, historian, and researcher based in Berlin.

Klappentext
The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all of the European countries with which it came into contact. This book considers each aspect of the encounter of Stalin with Europe: the attempt to create a kind of European state by accelerating the European model of industrial development; mass murder in anticipation of a war against European powers; the actual contact with Europe's greatest power, Nazi Germany, during four years of war fought chiefly on Soviet territory and bringing untold millions of deaths, including much of the Holocaust; and finally the reestablishment of the Soviet system, not just in the reestablished Soviet system, but in the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and East Germany. The contributors take up not just high politics but also the experiences of the populations that were affected by them. Divided into four parts, the book deals with Soviet politics and actions mainly in the 1930s; the Soviet invasion and occupation of Poland; German aggression against the Soviet Union as well as plans for occupation and their improvised implementation; and Soviet wartime plans for the postwar period. This volume brings together the best work from a multi-year project sponsored by the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, including scholars who have worked with archival materials in numerous countries and whose research is often published in other languages.

Zusammenfassung
A volume of original essays that reassesses the Soviet Union's impact on Europe, before, during, and after World War II.

Inhalt
Contributors
Introduction: Soviet History and European History- Timothy Snyder
1. The Gulag and Police Colonization in the Soviet Union- Lynne Viola
2. The Sino-Kazakh Border and the Kazakh Famine- Sarah Cameron
3. Stalin, Espionage, and Counter-Espionage- Hiroaki Kuromiya and Andrzej Peplonski
4. The Polish Underground under Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941- Rafal Wnuk
5. Soviet Economic Policy in Annexed Eastern Poland, 1939-1941- Marek Wierzbicki
6. Lviv under Soviet Rule, 1939-1941- Christoph Mick
7. German Economic Plans for the Soviet Union, 1941-1944- Alex J. Kay
8. The Holocaust in Ukraine- Dieter Pohl
9. Belarusian Partisans and German Reprisals- Timm Richter
10. Stalin's Wartime Vision of the Peace, 1939-1945- Geoffrey Roberts
11. The Consolidation of a Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1941-1948- Mark Kramer
13. The Tito-Stalin Split and the Reconsolidation of the Bloc, 1948-1953- Mark Kramer
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