Assured Victory: How "Stalin the Great" Won the War, but Lost the Peace
This book documents dictator Joseph Stalin's brilliant tactics as well as missteps in taking preemptive actions that guaranteed ultimate victory over the German invaders. It also covers the policies implemented after the war that made the Soviet Union a menace to world peace and led to collapse of Soviet rule.

A detailed reexamination of historical facts indicates that Stalin could deserve to be regarded as a "great leader." Yet Stalin clearly failed as his nation's leader in a post-World War II milieu, where he delivered the Cold War instead of rapid progress and global cooperation. It is the proof of both Stalin's brilliance and blunders that makes him such a fascinating figure in modern history.

Today, most of the Russian population acknowledges that Stalin achieved "greatness." The Soviet dictator's honored place in history is largely due to Stalin successfully attending to the Soviet Union's defense needs in the 1930s and 1940s, and leading the USSR to victory in the war on the Eastern Front against Nazi Germany and its allies. This book provides an overdue critical investigation of how the Soviet leader's domestic and foreign policies actually helped produce this victory, and above all, how Stalin's timely support of a wartime alliance with the Western capitalist democracies assured the defeat of the Axis powers in 1945.
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Assured Victory: How "Stalin the Great" Won the War, but Lost the Peace
This book documents dictator Joseph Stalin's brilliant tactics as well as missteps in taking preemptive actions that guaranteed ultimate victory over the German invaders. It also covers the policies implemented after the war that made the Soviet Union a menace to world peace and led to collapse of Soviet rule.

A detailed reexamination of historical facts indicates that Stalin could deserve to be regarded as a "great leader." Yet Stalin clearly failed as his nation's leader in a post-World War II milieu, where he delivered the Cold War instead of rapid progress and global cooperation. It is the proof of both Stalin's brilliance and blunders that makes him such a fascinating figure in modern history.

Today, most of the Russian population acknowledges that Stalin achieved "greatness." The Soviet dictator's honored place in history is largely due to Stalin successfully attending to the Soviet Union's defense needs in the 1930s and 1940s, and leading the USSR to victory in the war on the Eastern Front against Nazi Germany and its allies. This book provides an overdue critical investigation of how the Soviet leader's domestic and foreign policies actually helped produce this victory, and above all, how Stalin's timely support of a wartime alliance with the Western capitalist democracies assured the defeat of the Axis powers in 1945.
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Assured Victory: How

Assured Victory: How "Stalin the Great" Won the War, but Lost the Peace

by Albert L. Weeks
Assured Victory: How

Assured Victory: How "Stalin the Great" Won the War, but Lost the Peace

by Albert L. Weeks

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This book documents dictator Joseph Stalin's brilliant tactics as well as missteps in taking preemptive actions that guaranteed ultimate victory over the German invaders. It also covers the policies implemented after the war that made the Soviet Union a menace to world peace and led to collapse of Soviet rule.

A detailed reexamination of historical facts indicates that Stalin could deserve to be regarded as a "great leader." Yet Stalin clearly failed as his nation's leader in a post-World War II milieu, where he delivered the Cold War instead of rapid progress and global cooperation. It is the proof of both Stalin's brilliance and blunders that makes him such a fascinating figure in modern history.

Today, most of the Russian population acknowledges that Stalin achieved "greatness." The Soviet dictator's honored place in history is largely due to Stalin successfully attending to the Soviet Union's defense needs in the 1930s and 1940s, and leading the USSR to victory in the war on the Eastern Front against Nazi Germany and its allies. This book provides an overdue critical investigation of how the Soviet leader's domestic and foreign policies actually helped produce this victory, and above all, how Stalin's timely support of a wartime alliance with the Western capitalist democracies assured the defeat of the Axis powers in 1945.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798216050537
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 01/19/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Albert L. Weeks is professor emeritus at New York University, New York, NY, a World War II (USAF) veteran, and former Senior Soviet Analyst with the U.S. Department of State.
ALBERT L. WEEKS, formerly Professor of International Affairs at New York University (1961-1989), teaches politics and foreign policy at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. A well-respected Sovietologist, he is the author of nine books, including Stalin's Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941 (2003) and Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the USSR in World War II (2004).

What People are Saying About This

Dr. Jacob W. Kipp

"Albert Weeks has taken on a very important issue that still plagues Russian and Western historiography of the war: Stalin's political objectives as they relate to the coming, course, and outcome of the war. Weeks argues that Stalin had a hand in bringing about the war, which imposed heavy costs upon his own people, and was the architect of victory, which served to consolidate his own power but did not address the deep longing of his own people for a return to a normal time. Those interested in the coming, conduct, and outcome of World War II will find much of interest in this volume."

David M. Glantz

"This striking new volume puts paid to current controversies regarding the 'greatness' of Josef Stalin, the dictator of the Soviet Union before, during, and after the Soviet-German War (1941-1945). Exploiting fresh archival releases, Weeks assesses Stalin's performance, separating the genuine "wheat" from the veritable flood of 'chaff' regarding the dictator that has been generated during the turbulent years in Russian history following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. What results is a sobering portrait of, arguably, the Twentieth Century's most accomplished but brutal totalitarian ruler."

David M. Glantz, Colonel, U.S. Army, retired

David M. Glantz

"This striking new volume puts paid to current controversies regarding the 'greatness' of Josef Stalin, the dictator of the Soviet Union before, during, and after the Soviet-German War (1941–1945). Exploiting fresh archival releases, Weeks assesses Stalin's performance, separating the genuine 'wheat' from the veritable flood of 'chaff' regarding the dictator that has been generated during the turbulent years in Russian history following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. What results is a sobering portrait of, arguably, the Twentieth Century's most accomplished but brutal totalitarian ruler."

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