{"id":2677,"date":"2021-05-07T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/stalinss-war-and-peace"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:27:50","slug":"stalins-war-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/stalinss-war-and-peace","title":{"rendered":"STALIN'S WAR AND PEACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nina Khrushcheva<\/strong>, Professor of International Affairs at The New School, is the co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler), most recently, of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones, reviews four recent books on Soviet history that may provide lessons for dealing with modern Russia.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sean McMeekin,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/titles\/sean-mcmeekin\/stalins-war\/9781541672796\/\"><em>Stalin's War: A New History of World War II<\/em><\/a><\/strong><strong>, Allen Lane, London; Basic Books, New York, 2021.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Haslam,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691182650\/the-spectre-of-war\">The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong>, Princeton University Press, 2021.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Norman M. Naimark<em>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238770\">Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong>, Harvard University Press, 2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Francine Hirsch,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/soviet-judgment-at-nuremberg-9780199377930?cc=fr&amp;lang=en&amp;\"><em>Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II<\/em><\/a><\/strong><strong>, Oxford University Press, 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Stalins-War-and-Peace-by-Nina-L.-Khrushcheva-Project-Syndicate.pdf\">Stalin's War and Peace by Nina L. 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