Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Professor Mastny has no startling new thesis to offer (e.g., that the Americans and British were really responsible for the Cold War). Instead he has carefully sifted the evidence, including some valuable material from East European, particularly Czech, sources in order to confirm the generally accepted view of events following World War II. Stalin apparently did not start out with a master plan of conquest but seized the opportunity to do so when it was presented to him by the clumsiness and naiveté of Western leaders, most notably President Roosevelt, who was embarrassingly inept in his dealings with Stalin. The book makes for interesting but very sad reading." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)