Yesterday Yoram Hazony recommended Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II. It is a mind-boggling book that hasn’t received the recognition it is due. On the publication date of the book in 2021 we posted his backgrounder “The story behind Stalin’s War.”
McMeekin’s “Stalin’s War” is the best history I’ve read in years. Among other themes:
1. Stalin was every bit as evil as Hitler.
2. FDR was as much of an appeaser as Chamberlain.
3. The D-Day invasion was Stalin’s idea for diverting the US/UK from invading Europe from Italy…
— Yoram Hazony (@yhazony) January 8, 2025
Professor McMeekin is Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College. He is an academic historian of a different stripe. All his books are worth reading.
One of the responses to Hazony’s post led me to the interview with Professor McMeekin below. He is the author, most recently, of To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, reviewed here by Ian Ona Johnson in the current issue of the Claremont Review of Books. Professor McMeekin wrote “Communism lives” for us in connection with his new book. The interview takes up the subject of his new book in this intensely interesting discussion.
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism ft. Dr. Sean McMeekin@SantsPliego and @JoshuaClemans sit down with historian Dr. Sean McMeekin to discuss:
(0:46) How Dr. McMeekin became interested in communism
(12:09) The myth vs. reality of communism
(22:46) Why communism appeals to… pic.twitter.com/Al8EhgR8aT— New Founding (@NewFounding) November 12, 2024
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