Post-soviet Russian historiography on the emergence of the Soviet bloc

Kritika

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 561-580

  Naimark, Norman M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61149154924     PISSN: 1531023X     EISSN: 15385000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/kri.2004.0043     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. For a more complete discussion, see Norman M. Naimark, "Cold War Studies and New Archival Materials on Stalin," Russian Revieiv 61, 1 (2002): 1-5
2. T. V. Volokitina et al., eds., Tri vizita A. la. Vyshinskogo v Bukharest, 1944-1946: Dokumenty rossiiskikh arkhivov (Moscow, Rosspen, 1998)
3. Gennadii Bordiugov et al., eds., SSSR-Pol'sha: Mekhanizmy podchineniia, 1944-1949 gg. Sbornik dokumentov (Moscow: AIRO-XX, 1995)
4. Joseph Rothschild, Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
5. T. V. Vblokitina et al., Moskva i Vostochnaia Evropa: Stanovlenie politicheskikh rezhimov sovetskogo tipa, 1949-1953. Ocherki istorii (Moscow: Rosspen, 2002), 4
6. John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
7. and Melvyn P. Leffler, "The Cold War: What Do 'We Now Know'?" American Historical Review 104, 2 (1999): 501-24
8. Milovan Djilas, Conversations with Stalin, trans. Michael P. Petrovich (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1962), 114
9. Georgi Dimitrov, The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949, ed. Ivo Banac (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 357-58
10. Volokitina et al., Moskva i Vostoclmaia Evropa, 35-36
11. V. V. Mar'ina and L. B. Miliakova, eds., Totalitarizm: Istoricheskii opyt Vostochnoi Evropy. "Demokraticheskoe intermezzo" s kommunisticheskim finalom, 1944-1948 (Moscow: Nauka, 2002)
12. Gibianskii, "Forsirovanie," 32
13. "ZakliuchenieOVP TsK BKP(b) ⋯ 1 February 1947," Vostocbnaia Evropa, vol. 1, 579
14. Gibianskii, "Forsirovanie," 156
15. Volokitina et al., Moskva i Vostochnaia Evropa, 47
16. I. I. Orlik, "Vostochnaia Evropa v dokumentakh rossiiskikh arkhivov, 1944-1953 gg.," Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 5 (1999): 192
17. T. V. Volokitina, G. P. Murashko, and A. F. Noskova, Narodnaia Demokratiia: Mif ili real'nost'? Obshchestvenno-politicheskie protsessy v Vostochnoi Evrope, 1944-1948gg. (Moscow: Nauka, 1993)
18. Mar'ina and Miliakova, Totalitarizm, 10
19. Hugh Seton-Watson, The East European Revolution (London: Methuen, 1950)
20. and Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Cotiflict, rev. and enlarged ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967)
21. See Gibianskii, "Forsirovanie," 142-43. The quotation about Czechoslovakia is from "Zapis' besedy I. V. Stalina s B. Berutom i E. Osubka-Moravskim ⋯ 24 May 1946," Vostochnaia Evropa, vol. 1, 457. Emphasis added
22. See Norman M. Naimark, "Revolution and Counterrevolution in Eastern Europe," in The Crisis of Socialism in Eastern Europe, ed. Christiane Lemke and Gary Marks (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992), 72-75
23. See also Mark Kramer, "Ideology and the Cold War," Review of International Studies 25,4 (1999): 539-76
24. Andrew Janos, East Central Europe in the Modern World: The Politics of the Borderlands from Pre- to Postcommunism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000), 237
25. Charles Gati, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986)
26. and Vojtech Mastny, Russia's Road to Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979)
27. See Eduard Mark, "Revolution by Degrees: Stalin's National-Front Strategy for Europe, 1941- 1947," Cold War International History Project, Working Paper no. 31 (February 2001)
28. See Francis J. Kase, People's Democracy: A Contribution to the Study of the Communist Theory of'State and Revolution (Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1968), 15
29. Gibianskii, "Forsirovanie," 141-42
30. Orlik, "Vostochnaia Evropa," 185
31. Vostochnaia Evropa, vol. 1, 457-58
32. Orlik, "Vostochnaia Evropa," 189
33. Gibianskii, "Forsirovanie," 144
34. Cited in Naimark, The Russians in Germany, 346
35. Gati, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc, 73-74
36. Brzezinski, The Soviet Bloc, 22-23
37. Rothschild, Return to Diversity, 78
38. John Connelly, Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 55
39. Gibianskii, "Forsirovanie," 163
40. See, for example, the recent review by the Air Force historian, Eduard Mark, of Arnold Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), online in H-Diplo, 8 November 2002: h-net.msu.edu. Fundamentally, Mark accuses OfTner of missing the point of the postwar Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe and of apologizing for Stalin's policies
41. Gaddis, We Now Know
42. Leffler, "The Cold War."
43. See also Leffler, "Inside Enemy Archives: The Cold War Reopened,' Foreign Affairs (July-August 1999): 120-35