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The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity

The Stalin Years

Vojtech Mastny author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:22nd Oct '98

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Arguing that ideology is the cornerstone of the Cold War, Mastny demonstrates that Stalin's single-minded adherence to Marxism-Leninism created an atmosphere, both domestically and internationally, of constant insecurity. Behind the internal purges, Russia's control of Eastern Europe, Stalin's relationship with Tito and the West, and acts of espionage and assassination, lay an insecurity, born of ideology, that neither Stalin nor the Soviet Union could ever dispel.

will undoubtedly take its place alongside the earlier work as one of the most valuable studies of postwar Soviet policy ... Mastny's overall assessment of Stalin is both arresting and persuasive. * Geoffrey Warner, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, History *

ISBN: 9780195126594

Dimensions: 233mm x 156mm x 22mm

Weight: 426g

304 pages