Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover this podcast and so much more

    Podcasts are free to enjoy without a subscription. We also offer ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more for just $11.99/month.

    Ep. 4: Sean McMeekin on Stalin and World War II

    Ep. 4: Sean McMeekin on Stalin and World War II

    FromSchool of War

    Start listeningView podcast show

    Ep. 4: Sean McMeekin on Stalin and World War II

    FromSchool of War

    ratings:
    Length:
    44 minutes
    Released:
    Nov 9, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Biography
    Sean McMeekin is a professor and historian who focuses on early 20th century Europe. In addition to his latest book, Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, McMeekin is the author of The Russian Revolution: A New History, July 1914: Countdown to War, and The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923, as well as several other books. McMeekin currently serves as the Francis Flournoy Professor of European History at Bard College in New York.
    Times

    02:02 - Introduction

    05:35 - The American understanding of Russia and Joseph Stalin in World War II

    09:12 - Politics and Stalin's legacy

    11:37 - Stalin's foreign policy prior to WWII

    17:40 - Stalin secures the Japanese non-aggression pact

    24:03 - The Soviets push for a war between Japan and the United States

    27:29 - Harry Hopkins and the Lend-Lease Policy

    33:58 - Stalin as an ally

    37:17 - Demanding unconditional surrender

    40:16 - Debate over what compelled the Japanese to surrender

    42:03 - Reception of Stalin's War



    Recorded October 6, 2021
    Released:
    Nov 9, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There’s a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy. Avoiding the knowledge of war is dangerous. This podcast solves that problem by diving into military and diplomatic history.  We study strategy, and the words and deeds of significant battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have trained directly in the school of war.   This podcast is primarily an interview show. The subject of any given episode may be the story of an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international competition; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; the legacy of an important military commander or political leader in wartime.