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Article: FDR and the Soviet Union: The President's Battles over Foreign Policy.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2006
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FDR and the Soviet Union: The President's Battles over Foreign Policy. By Mary E. Glantz. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. viii, 253. $34.95.)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) has been harshly criticized in recent years by writers who have alleged that his naive policies toward the Soviet Union during World War II facilitated and emboldened Stalinist expansionism. In contrast to those polemical attacks, Mary Glantz argues that FDR had a wise policy to ensure victory over Nazi Germany and to establish a foundation for postwar cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Far from being naive, Roosevelt knew that Joseph Stalin was a ...