Stalin and the struggle for supremacy in Eurasia /

Conceived as a sequel to The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands, this book radically shifts the focus away from a comparison of the centuries' old competition among multi-cultural conquest empires for hegemony in Eurasia to the Soviet Union, the central player in the renewal of that contest...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rieber, Alfred J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Eurasia. Eurasia > Foreign relations > Soviet Union. Borderlands > Eurasia > History. Borderlands > Soviet Union > History. Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 > Political and social views. Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1936-1953. Hegemony > Soviet Union > History. Nation-building > Soviet Union > History.

Table of Contents:

Stalin : man of the borderlands
Borderlands in civil war and intervention
The borderland thesis: The West
The borderland thesis: The East
Stalin in command
Borderlands on the eve
Civil wars in the borderlands
War aims: The outer perimeter
War aims: The inner perimeter
Friendly governments in the outer perimeter
Conclusion: A transient hegemony.