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Title: A very shallow treatment of available literature and facts
Review: This is a very disappointing book, especially given some of Lukacs' earlier works.The author has not consulted the latest available material about Stalin's offensive war preparations against Hitler. His treatment of the Stalin-speech to the Politburo on August 19, 1939 is also wrong. Lukacs claims that the speech is a forgery, but in fact it's contents have been confirmed by the diary-entry of Comintern-Leader G. Dimitroff (see his long entry on Sept. 7, 1939) and the instructions to the Communist Parties about how to jusitfy the Pact with Hitler.The book suffers from Lukacs' inability to read Russian books and his shallow overview of available material in English and/or German laguage.Not recommended!
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