How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950 1st Edition

How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780300274875,9780300273618,0300273614,0300274874

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0300274874
• ISBN-13: 9780300273618
• Author: Kimmo Rentola
  

A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed. In November 1939, Stalin directed his military leaders to launch an invasion of Finland. In what became known as the Winter War, the full might of the Soviet army was pitted against this small Nordic republic. Yet despite their vastly superior military strength, the Soviets suffered heavy losses and failed to mount Stalin’s intended full-scale invasion. How did Finland evade Stalin’s crosshairs—not once, but three times more? In this groundbreaking account, Kimmo Rentola traces the epochal shifts in Soviet-Finnish relations. From the Winter War to Finland’s exit from World War II in 1944, a possible Soviet-backed coup in 1948, and Moscow’s designation of Finland as an enemy state in 1950, Finland was forced to navigate Stalin’s outsize political and territorial demands. Rentola presents a dramatic reconstruction of Finland’s unlikely survival at a time when the nation’s very existence was at stake.

Table contents:

1. The Soviet Decision for War
2. The War
3. The Soviet Decision for Peace
4. Consequences
5. Contact
6. Is This All?
7. Capitulation?
8. Interim Peace
9. Reflections
10. Setting the Stage
11. Going on the Offensive
12. The Military Treaty
13. When to Stop?
14. What Was It?
15. To Get Rid of Paasikivi
16. Korea and Kekkonen
17. Third World War?
18. Finland’s Third Way

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