Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: The Stalinist Revolution
1: Making the Stalinist Revolution
2: Exterminating Internal Threats to Socialist Unity
3: War and Illusions
4: Soviet Aims and Western Concessions
5: Taking Eastern Europe
6: The Red Army in Berlin
7: Restoring the Stalinist Dictatorship in a Broken Society
Part II: Shadows of the Cold War
8: Stalin and Truman: False Starts
9: Potsdam, the Bomb, and Asia
10: Soviet Retribution and Post-War Trials
11: Soviet Retribution and Ethnic Groups
12: Reaffirming Communist Ideology
Part III: Stalins' Cold War
13: New Communist Regimes in Poland and Czechoslovakia
14: The Pattern of Dictatorships: Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary
15: Communism in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece
16: The Passing of the Communist Moment in Western Europe
17: Stalin's Choices and the Future of Europe
18: Stalinist Failures: Yugoslavia and Germany
19: Looking at Asia from the Kremlin
20: New Waves of Stalinization
21: Stalin's Last Will and Testament
Epilogue
Notes
Index

About the Author

Robert Gellately is Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University. His publications have been translated into over twenty languages and include the widely acclaimed Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: the Age of Social Catastrophe (2007), Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (2001), and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945 (1990), the last two also published by Oxford
University Press. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

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an impressive piece of scholarship ... This paperback edition is to be welcomed
*Evan Mawdsley, BBC History*