Download or read book Stalin and the Inevitable War, 1936-1941 written by Silvio Pons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the responses of the Soviet Union to the European crises which led to World War II. It is based on a substantial body of political and diplomatic documents that has become accessible to scholars since the opening up of former Soviet archives in 1992.