The Concept of Neutrality in Stalin’s Foreign Policy, 1945–1953
PETER RUGGENTHALER The Concept of Neutrality in Stalin’s Foreign Policy, 1945–1953 Drawing on recently declassified Soviet archival sources, this book sheds new light on how the division of Europe came about in the aftermath of World War II. The book contravenes the notion that a neutral zone of states, including Germany, could have been set up between East and West. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin was determined to...