Bøger af Gabriel Gorodetsky

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A history of the German invasion of Russia in 1941, in the light of archival material. It challenges the view that Stalin was about to invade Germany when Hitler made a pre-emptive strike, arguing that Stalin was actually negotiating for peace in order to redress the European balance of power.

Lenin's death at the beginning of 1924 coincided with an exhaustive search by the USSR for a modus vivendi with the capitalist world. In laying the foundations of peaceful co-existence, priority was given to the cultivation of relations with Britain.

Sir Stafford Cripps' meteoric rise from the radical fringe of Parliament to membership of the War Cabinet came via his ambassadorship to Moscow at the turning-point in the War. This lively revisionist account of a crucial phase in his career.