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Solberg could be described as a post-revisionist. He well recalls the sigh of relief when American soldiers came home in 1945. The U.S. had, he contends, two deep-seated fears: another Great Depression and another sneak attack like Pearl Harbor. Then came the shocking news that "Uncle Joe" Stalin's Russia was a lot more like Adolf Hitler's Germany than it ought to have been. Sound and statesmanlike steps were taken, among them the Marshall Plan. So were some domestically dangerous ripostes to Russian provocations, like the 1948 passage of a peacetime draft. Thereafter, fear...
Donald Thomas is one of a very small school of strong-minded historians whose members* scorn the mild contrariness of revisionism. Revisionists, after all, merely prove that Stalin was a fine fellow, Henry VIII a picky eater and the U.S. started the cold war. Thomas and his ilk go much further. In this book, for example, Thomas reveals the fact that British General James Wolfe never took Quebec from the French in 1759 at all. The American colonies never banded together against King George III either. What actually happened was that Wolfe-no hero, but a mincing, vindictive incompetent-lost...
...Soviets' Methuselah cult is explainable in social and political rather than medical terms, says Medvedev. In the hotbeds of centenarianism, the aged are venerated and may even have postage stamps issued in their honor. The cult's prominence in Georgia was fostered by Georgian-born Stalin, who apparently began to hope, at around age 70, that longevity might...
...directly on the Palestinians by Zionism. And above all I know that human suffering cannot be quantified, that no side or group can be said to have suffered more than any other group. Yes, six million Jews were murdered by Hitler, but he also murdered as many Russians, and Stalin twice that. Who can say which people suffered more. You may want to talk in percentages--but what kind of perverse scale would that...
...youthful ideals. As he recounted last year In The Green Stick, his first autobiographical installment, he was raised as a devout socialist in a middle-class suburb of London. Later, his Utopian faith was shattered by his experiences as a correspondent in the Raj's India and Stalin's Moscow. Now, as the war ends in The Infernal Grove, he turns away in final disenchantment from the "world's wreck," disgusted equally with the victors and the vanquished...