Roosevelt and Stalin Portrait of a Partnership
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- 03 maart 2015
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Susan Butler
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A hugely important book that solely and fully explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, by the editor ofMy Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin (History owes a debt to Susan Butler for the collection and annotation of these exchangesArthur Schlesinger, Jr).
Making use of previously classified materials from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, and the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, as well as the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and three hundred hot war messages between Roosevelt and Stalin, Butler tells the story of how the leader of the capitalist world and the leader of the Communist world became more than allies of convenience during World War II. Butler reassess in-depth how the two men became partners, how they shared the same outlook for the postwar world, and how they formed an uneasy but deep friendship, shaping the worlds political stage from the war to the decades leading up to and into the new century.
Roosevelt and Stalin tells of the first face-to-face meetings of the two leaders over four days in December 1943 at Tehran, in which the Allies focused on the next phases of the war against the Axis Powers in Europe and Asia; of Stalins agreement to launch another major offensive on the Eastern Front; and of his agreement to declare war against Japan following the Allied victory over Germany.
Butler writes of the weeklong meeting at Yalta in February of 1945, two months before Roosevelts death, where the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany was agreed on and postwar Europe was reorganized, and where Stalin agreed to participate in Roosevelts vision of the United Nations.
The book makes clear that Roosevelt worked hard to win Stalin over, pursuing the Russian leader, always holding out the promise that Roosevelts own ideas were the best bet for the future peace and security of Russia; however, Stalin was not at all sure that Roosevelts concept of a world organization, even with police powers, would be enough to keep Germany from starting a third world war, but we see how Stalins view of Roosevelt evolved, how he began to see FDR as the key to a peaceful world.
Butlers book is the first to show how FDR pushed Stalin to reinstate religion in the Soviet Union, which he did in 1943; how J. Edgar Hoover derailed the U.S.-planned establishment of an OSS intelligence mission in Moscow and a Soviet counterpart in America before the 1944 election; and that Roosevelt had wanted to involve Stalin in the testing of the atomic bomb at Alamogardo, New Mexico.
We see how Roosevelts death deeply affected Stalin. Averell Harriman, American ambassador to the Soviet Union, reported that the Russian premier was more disturbed than I had ever seen him, and said to Harriman, President Roosevelt has died but his cause must live on. We shall support President Truman with all our forces and all our will. And the author explores how Churchillsand Trumansmutual mistrust and provocation of Stalin resulted in the Cold War.
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of this crucial, world-changing partnership.
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