How Stalin's Gamble to Form an Anti-German Alliance FAILED | Historian Michael J Carley

In this deep dive history interview, Prof Michael J. Carley gives a masterclass in how the Western powers - Poland, Romania, Italy, USA, France and, of course, Britain - rebuffed Stalin's offer of a defensive alliance against Germany. The divided societies of the West were tempted by fascism. The USSR fell into the 1930s Terror. By 1936, war broke out in Spain, Germany marched into the Rhineland, and the Purges and other disasters devastated the Soviet Union. Was World War Two "precisely the war Stalin wanted" (Sean McMeekin, Stalin's War)? Not according to leading historian Prof Michael J. Carley. The story from the archives of how the world fell into this crisis of war is not what you have been told. Books by Michael J. Carley discussed in this video: 📕Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936 https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10... 📕Stalin’s Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936–1939 https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10... 📕Stalin's Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939-1941 https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10... Available at good booksellers online and local and at the University of Toronto Press links above You can read Michael Jabara Carley's detailed assessment of Sean McMeekin, Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II (2021) at https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443... V I D E O S T O W A T C H N E X T: Is Stalin to BLAME for WW2? The true story from the Soviet Archives | Prof Michael J. Carley    • Is Stalin to BLAME for WW2? The true story...   Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick on The Death of Stalin & the Cold War One and Cold War Two.    • Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick on The Death ...   Timothy Snyder: when historians tell big lies, tragedy follows.    • Timothy Snyder: when historians tell big l...   Russian/Soviet History Playlist    • Russian History   The Rise and Fall of Empires    • The Rise and Fall of Empires   ------------------------------------------------------------ Inquiries: [email protected]