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Stalin and the Fate of Europe - The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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Stalin and the Fate of Europe - The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award Winner of the
U.S.-Russia Relations Book Prize A Financial Times Best History
Book of the Year The 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 half of the continent, and in France and Italy, communist
parties were serious political forces. Yet Naimark reveals a
surprisingly flexible Stalin, who initially had no intention of
dividing Europe. During a window of opportunity from 1945 to 1948,
leaders across the political spectrum, including Juho Kusti
Paasikivi of Finland, Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland, and Karl Renner
of Austria, pushed back against outside pressures. For some, this
meant struggling against Soviet dominance. For others, it meant
enlisting the Americans to support their aims. The first frost of
Cold War could be felt in the tense patrolling of zones of
occupation in Germany, but not until 1948, with the coup in
Czechoslovakia and the Berlin Blockade, did the familiar
polarization set in. The split did not become irreversible until
the formal division of Germany and establishment of NATO in 1949.
In illuminating how European leaders deftly managed national
interests in the face of dominating powers, Stalin and the Fate of
Europe reveals the real potential of an alternative trajectory for
the continent.
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