TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shearer,David R.
TI  - Stalin and war, 1918-1953: patterns of repression, mobilization, and external threat 
T2  - Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe
SN  - 9781032043555 (pbk.)
U1  - 947.0842 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Stalin, Joseph,
KW  - Political persecution
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - Social control
KW  - Political purges
KW  - National security
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1917-1936
KW  - 1936-1953
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Crisis 1: Poland, peasants, and war, 1918-1921, 1928-1932 -- Crisis 2: Germany, Japan, and the threat of insurgency, 1936-1939 -- Crisis 3: The Great Fatherland War -- The final threat, 1947-1953 -- Conclusion: Cycles of violence
N2  - "Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator's rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator's perceptions of war and foreign threat. This book will be of interest to professional scholars of Soviet history, twentieth-century history, and World War II history, and it is approachable enough to be appreciated by general readers"--
ER  -