Introduction

Stalenswar is a new history of world war two, by shan mc mekin. The author chose the title because worldwar too, in his view, and contrary to what we are endlessly told, was less hitler's war than joseph stalenswer. Shan m on has made a career out of what are often called revisionist histories all about the first half of the twentieth century,. Several about russia. I was suitably impressed by his the russian revolution. But that and this book are not really revisionist histories. Rather, they are correctives to the diom that has been most english language histories tied to communism during the past hundred years. And