If you're interested in learning more about why many scholars view Stalin in this light, and you don't speak Russian, I'd recommend John Erickson's history of the Eastern front. Given his connections in the Soviet wartime leadership, he was a key piece of the historiography right up until the Soviet archives opened in the 90s. And the new folks working off those archives are too young to have interviewed many of key players, so I think he still has an advantage.
Or maybe you're just stanning Stalin for the sick memes, dunno.
Suggesting that Stalin wasn't totally incompentent because that actually makes no sense is stanning Stalin apparently.
And no, I don't care to read this nieche stuff about history. I'm not a WWII buff and I don't find it particularly relavent to anything whether Stalin was a military genius or not. Frankly, I don't see what it proves one way or another.
It may well not be relevant to your interests, which is totally fair, but it's very relevant to this thread about whether Stalin or Trotsky would have better led the Soviet Union through the second world war.
If you're interested in learning more about why many scholars view Stalin in this light, and you don't speak Russian, I'd recommend John Erickson's history of the Eastern front. Given his connections in the Soviet wartime leadership, he was a key piece of the historiography right up until the Soviet archives opened in the 90s. And the new folks working off those archives are too young to have interviewed many of key players, so I think he still has an advantage.
Or maybe you're just stanning Stalin for the sick memes, dunno.
Suggesting that Stalin wasn't totally incompentent because that actually makes no sense is stanning Stalin apparently.
And no, I don't care to read this nieche stuff about history. I'm not a WWII buff and I don't find it particularly relavent to anything whether Stalin was a military genius or not. Frankly, I don't see what it proves one way or another.
It may well not be relevant to your interests, which is totally fair, but it's very relevant to this thread about whether Stalin or Trotsky would have better led the Soviet Union through the second world war.
I see what you mean, but these threads sort of rub me the wrong way because they are so open to wild ideological speculation.