Роковой самообман: Сталин и нападение Германии на Советский Союз

This book offers a new vision of the political and military situation and Stalin's military policy on the eve of World War II. It opposes another book on this subject, ' Ledokol' by Viktor Suvorov. According to the author, many studies on the origin of the war limited themselves to their analysis of the secret pact between Ribbentrop and Stalin. Gorodetsky considers Stalin's actions in a much broader perspective of political change in Europe, and bases his analysis on many unpublished archival documents from Russia, the Balkan countries, Great Britain, etc. Name index, bibliographical references.