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From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism  When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and sympathy for Communist ideas have proliferated across the globe.    In To Overthrow the World, Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless ...

“A provocative, revisionist take on the Second World War” (Financial Times) by a prize-winning historianWe remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling events and the Allied powers saving the day. But Hitler’s armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit the spoils of war. That role belonged to Joseph Stalin. Hitler’s genocidal ambition ma...

A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Impressive ... A new look at the conflict, which poses new questions and provides new and often unexpected answers to the old ones' Serhii Plokhy, The Guardian In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an a...

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Drawing on ambitious new research in European and U.S. archives, Stalin's War revolutionizes our understanding of World War II by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler's genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war that emerged in Europe in August 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, was the Pacific war of 1941-1945 the direct result of Stalin's maneuverings, which he orchestrated to ...

From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution. In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse...

Despite the Cold War and wave upon wave of revelations about the horrors of Stalin's regime, the Western narrative of World War II continues to be dominated by a perverse sense of gratitude towards the USSR. The sheer horror of the Soviet experience and the staggering levels of both military and civilian deaths seem to demand a 'truce' in the UK and USA's otherwise consistent hostility before and after the war towards everything that Stalin st...

Osmanlida Son Fasil, 20. yüzyili Osmanlinin gözünden sasirtici bir yaklasimla yeniden anlatirken, Birinci Dünya Savasini ve günümüz Ortadogusunu daha iyi kavramamizi saglayacak yeni görüsler sunuyor.Osmanli Imparatorlugu ve ardili devletler 1911-1923 yillari arasinda basta Birinci Dünya Savasi olmak üzere bir dizi savas deneyimi yasadi. Sean McMeekin iyi bildigimizi sandigimiz bu deneyim hakkinda aslinda ne kadar az sey bildigimizi gösteriyor....

Based on previously unseen documents from the Tsarist military archive, this new history of the Russian Revolution proposes that the support of bordering countries seeing more benefit in the communist side's fortunes was integral to the revolution and ensuing power structure's success.

L'Impero ottomano durò per più di sei secoli, prima di dissolversi durante un ampio conflitto che ebbe al centro la Prima guerra mondiale. A partire dall'invasione italiana della Tripoli ottomana nel mese di settembre 1911, l'impero si trovò in uno stato di emergenza continua, con a malapena una frontiera non minacciata. Era sotto costante assedio, ormai considerato un guscio vuoto, e tuttavia dimostrò di essere ancora in grado di resistere, r...

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On 28 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. A little over a month later the world was engulfed in the bloodiest conflict mankind had ever seen. How did such tragedy unfold so quickly?

When an assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow. Indeed, as award-winning historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might indeed have been avoided entirely had it not been for the actions of a small group of statesmen in the month after the assassination. Whether they plotted for war or rode the whirlwind nearly blind, these men so...

Sean McMeekin is Professor of History at Bard College, New York. For some years he taught at Bilkent University, Istanbul. His books include the highly successful The Berlin-Baghdad Express (Penguin), The Russian Origins of the First World War and July 1914.

Sean McMeekin has written two previous books, both published by Yale University Press: The Red Millionaire and History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks. He splits his time between the USA and Turkey.

Presents an entirely new take on the origins of WWI, proposing that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg.