Well, that's certainly a good explanation. I don't know very much about WW1, but I'll look into it. I've read as many hostile reviews as I can find of Stalin's War, and they don't make criticisms of anything like this gravity. He did write Stalin's War 10 years later, so perhaps he matured as a scholar, or perhaps (a) the prevalent histo…
Well, that's certainly a good explanation. I don't know very much about WW1, but I'll look into it. I've read as many hostile reviews as I can find of Stalin's War, and they don't make criticisms of anything like this gravity. He did write Stalin's War 10 years later, so perhaps he matured as a scholar, or perhaps (a) the prevalent historiography of WW2 is just much more flawed, and makes it easier to do revisionism or (b) Stalin really was so bad, that you can be as biased as you want and still not do him an injustice.
Well, that's certainly a good explanation. I don't know very much about WW1, but I'll look into it. I've read as many hostile reviews as I can find of Stalin's War, and they don't make criticisms of anything like this gravity. He did write Stalin's War 10 years later, so perhaps he matured as a scholar, or perhaps (a) the prevalent historiography of WW2 is just much more flawed, and makes it easier to do revisionism or (b) Stalin really was so bad, that you can be as biased as you want and still not do him an injustice.