How Soviet Cold Warriors viewed World War II: the inside story of the 1957 edition of the Big Three correspondence |
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| Authors: | Vladimir Pechatnov |
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| Institution: | Department of European and American Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, Russia |
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| Abstract: | This article discusses the origins of the 1957 Soviet edition of the correspondence between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill during the Second World War. Using newly available documents from Russian archives it analyses various factors that led to this publication, traces its production process, and highlights the way the Soviet establishment tried to spin the World War II narrative in order to win the Cold War battle to establish the dominant historical narrative. Notwithstanding its Cold War origins, the publication retains its historical value but needs to be reassessed in the light of new sources and historiography. |
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