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  title info:
    title: Stalin and the fate of Europe
    sub title: the postwar struggle for sovereignty
  name:
    name part: Naimark, Norman M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: The Bornholm interlude -- The Albanian backflip -- The Finnish fight for independence -- The Italian elections -- The Berlin blockade -- Gomulka versus Stalin -- Austrian tangles.
  note: Norman M. Naimark.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: Stalin, Joseph
      name part: 1878-1953
  subject:
    name:
      name part: North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
  subject:
    geographic: Communist countries
    topic: Boundaries
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 1945-
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1945-
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1945-1991
  classification: D843 .N266 2019
  classification: 940.55/4
  identifier: 9780674238770
  identifier: 067423877X
  identifier: 2019012559
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190404
    record change date: 20200117104451.0
    record identifier: in00004082049