Stalin And The Fate Of Europe Av Norman M. Naimark

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award Winner of the US–Russia Relations Book Prize “The achievement of a lifetime.” —Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin “Naimark has few peers as a scholar of Stalinism, the Soviet Union and 20th-century Europe, and his latest work Stalin and the Fate of Europe is one of his most original and interesting.” —Financial Times “A timely and instructive account not merely of our own history but also of our fractious, unsettling present.” —Daniel Beer, The Guardian “Adds an abundance of fresh knowledge to a time and place that we think we know, clarifying the contours of Soviet–American conflict by skillfully enriching the history of postwar Europe.” —Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order, Norman Naimark suggests that Stalin was far more open to a settlement than we have thought. Through revealing case