Synopses & Reviews
This collection of twenty-three seminal readings in international political economy charts the historical and theoretical evolution of the field. Bringing together classic works and leading contemporary arguments, the book outlines the development of three schools of IPE thought: Liberalism,
Marxism, and Realism. Recent syntheses of these approaches are also included to show how conventional theoretical categories are giving way to more eclectic conceptual schemes. The readings range from the eighteenth century to the present day and include works by Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich
List, David Ricardo, Adam Smith, Lenin, Karl Marx, Richard Cooper, Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye, Theotonio Dos Santos, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Robert Gilpin, Peter Katzenstein, Mancur Olson, Richard Zeckhauser, Bruon Frey, Immanuel Wallerstein, Donald J. Puchala, Raymond F. Hopkins, and Stephen
Krasner. Providing many of the most frequently cited IPE references in a single volume, The Theoretical Evolution Of International Political Economy will be a valuable resource for students and teachers of international relations and international economics.
Review
"This is a substantial contribution to the literature on the Soviet-German war....Mawdsley knows the material intimately. This is a high-class offering."--Robert Service
Review
"Here at last is a concise and clearly written account of what happened on both sides of the hill that provides excellent comparisons of equipment, leadership, doctrine, organization, and personnel."--The International History Review
"This is a substantial contribution to the literature on the Soviet-German war....Mawdsley knows the material intimately. This is a high-class offering."--Robert Service
Review
"Thunder in the East is now the state-of-the art general history of the Eastern front."--James V. Koch, Old Dominion University
"Mawdsley is a Russian specialist, and much of his research is based on thousands of documents from the Soviet military archives published in the 1990s. These enable him, first, to avoid ovverreliance on self-serving Soviet military memoirs; second to provide an in-depth analysis of the Red Army's development into a highly effective military machine; and, third, to illuminate many neglected phases and episodes of the military campaign." Geoffrey Roberts --The Times Higher Education Supplement
"Here at last is a concise and clearly written account of what happened on both sides of the hill that provides excellent comparisons of equipment, leadership, doctrine, organization, and personnel."--The International History Review
"This is a substantial contribution to the literature on the Soviet-German war....Mawdsley knows the material intimately. This is a high-class offering."--Robert Service
Synopsis
The battles in Russia played the decisive part in Hitler's defeat. Gigantic, prolonged, and bloody, they contrasted with the general nature of the fighting on other fronts. The Russians fought on their own in "their" theater of war and with an independent strategy. Stalinist Russia was a country radically different from its liberal democratic allies. Hitler and the German high command, for their part, conceived and carried out the Russian campaign as a singular "war of annihilation."
This riveting new book is a penetrating, broad-ranging, yet concise overview of this vast conflict. It investigates the Wehrmacht and the Red Army and the command and production systems that organized and sustained them. It considers a range of further themes concerning this most political of wars. Benefiting from a post-Communist, post-Cold War perspective, the book takes advantage of a wealth of new studies and source material that have become available over the last decade.
Readers from history buffs to scholars will find something new in this exciting new book.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Nakanune: On the Eve of War
1. Hitler's war
2. Preparations and perceptions
Part 2 Katastrofa: The Soviet defeat, 1941-2
3. Operation Barbarossa, June to September 1941
4. Moscow and the end of Barbarossa, September to December 1941
5. The first Soviet offensive, December 1941 to May 1942
6. Moscow, Stalingrad, Leningrad, June 1942 to February 1943
Part 3 Pobeda: The Soviet victory, 1943-5
7. Total war I: Wartime arms and armies
8. Total war II: Occupation and diplomacy
9. The turning tide, February to August 1943
10. The Ukraine and Leningrad, August 1943 to April 1944
11. To the Soviet frontiers, Summer and Autumn 1944
12. The advance into Eastern Europe, July 1944 to May 1945
13. The destruction of Nazi Germany, October 1944 to May 1945
Conclusion