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...ablaze by signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler in August 1939, the civilized world gasped: How could he? One simple answer might have been that the pact was a characteristic move in the hard-boiled game of Russian foreign policy. But ever since Russia became Germany's Finland, the other United Nations have desired a more detailed explanation of Stalin's pre-invasion policies. John Scott's book is an attempt to supply this explanation...
...principally to keep British leftists quiet. Russia, on the other hand, was using the British talks in Moscow to gain time. Stalin soon decided, says Author Scott, that he could get more from Germany than from Britain-an interlude of peace and, incidentally, half of Poland, the Baltic states, Finland. Hitler was ready to concede the territorial pawns in the game, if he could neutralize temporarily the Russian military threat and get Russian raw materials...
Round Two. Finland looked like an easy second round. The Kremlin was confident, says Author Scott, that: 1) Finland would capitulate; 2) if there was a war the Finnish workers and soldiers would revolt; 3) revolt or no, the Red Army would quickly...
...Finnish fight dragged on, Stalin decided to stop short of total victory. His "recognition" of a "Finnish People's Government" had made him, says Author Scott, "an object of ridicule for [Soviet] streetcar conductors." But most important of all, the invasion of Finland had revealed "considerable deadwood" in the mighty Red Army. In short, Round Two had been "a grotesque blunder" diplomatically; an invaluable proving ground militarily...
...however, the survey is searching and thorough Questions range from pre-war attitudes of intervention to the settlement of the post-war world. Even opinions on military strategy are aked for, with one question on the opening of a second front. In the multiple choice answers France, Italy, Norway, Finland, and the Caucasus are mentioned as possible areas for the second front. Africa did not draw a single mimeographed line from the writes of the poll...