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Mëhilli’s fresh perspective on the Soviet-Chinese battle for the soul of revolution in the global Cold War illuminates the paradoxes of state planning in the twentieth century.
Elidor Mëhilli is Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
"From Stalin to Mao is an excellent book. In exploring Albania's various alliances—Yugoslav, Soviet, and Chinese—we not only learn about the Albanians but we also get new and important insights into decision making in Belgrade, Moscow, and Beijing. This is unique. What I enjoyed most was how Elidor Mëhilli is able to capture just what the Albanians were trying to do when the odds were really lined up against them. The stories of the different initiatives give us a new look into what what was a very bizarre experiment that ultimately failed."
OA Westad, Harvard University, author of The Cold War :
"For the first time, a source-based history of Communist Albania, the little eastern European country that defied, first, its Yugoslav neighbors, then its Soviet sponsors, and finally its Chinese protectors, only in order to build, by its own efforts, one of the world’s most sectarian and cruel Stalinist dictatorships. It is a remarkable tale, well told in this book."
Norman M. Naimark, author of Stalin’s Genocides, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University:
"Elidor Mëhilli’s lively and brilliantly researched study of Albanian history from 'Mussolini to Mao' draws us into the fascinating world of a tiny, isolated, and preindustrial country engaging some of the most significant upheavals in international affairs in the twentieth century. This important and much-needed book explores Albanian realities in the long and painful communist period as no other history I know."
Austin Jersild, Old Dominion University, author of The Sino-Soviet Alliance:
"In From Stalin to Mao, Elidor Mëhilli effectively places the story of Albania in the context of its consistent interaction with larger states, systems, and demands. This turns into an opportunity for the imaginative author to address scholarly debates and literatures central to many different fields—from Russian and East European history to American foreign policy—and make the story of this small Balkan country relevant to the concerns of numerous readerships. His fascinating story is never Albania itself, but Albania and the different 'windows into the world' of the twentieth century."
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