Stalin’s Plans for Capturing Germany

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Notes

1 See, for example, Yehuda Bauer’s review in Yad Vashem Studies XXXVIII: 2 (2010).

2 The “icebreaker” controversy began with Victor Suvorov (pseudonym for Vladimir Rezun); Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War? (London, 1990). The controversy is analyzed in Teddy J. Uldricks, “The Icebreaker Controversy: Did Stalin Plan to Attack Hitler?” Slavic Review, LVIII: 3 (1999), 626–43.

3 Jon Jacobson, When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics (Berkeley, 1994); Geoffrey Roberts, The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War: Russo–German Relations and the Road to War (New York, 1995); Michael Jabara Carley, Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930–1936 (Toronto, 2023); Michael Jabara Carley, Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936–1939 (Toronto, 2024); Jonathan Haslem, The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II (Princeton, 2021); Gabriel Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia (New Haven, 1999); and David M. Glantz, Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War (Lawrence, 1998).