Albert L. Weeks

Albert Loren Weeks (born March 28, 1923 in Highland Park , Michigan ) is an American political scientist . He was Professor of International Relations at New York University from 1961 to 1989 and now teaches Politics and Foreign Policy at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota , Florida.

Life

During World War II he served as a lieutenant because of the Lend-Lease ( Lend-Lease Act ) occasionally in the USSR .

plant

In his book on Soviet strategy from 1939 to 1941, Weeks argues that Josef Stalin planned in 1939 to profit from a war between National Socialist Germany and the Western powers . In doing so, he relies on a speech by Stalin to the Politburo of the CPSU on August 19, 1939 , which is considered a falsification of history . Weeks believes Stalin planned a preventive war against Germany, but Adolf Hitler anticipated him ( preventive war thesis ). The Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley sees the book as "a caricature of the view of the emigrants or the State Department on the bellicose and double-faced Soviet Union".

Publications (selection)

• Reading American History . McGraw-Hill, 1963
• The First Bolshevik. A Political Biography of Peter Tkachev . New York University Press, 1968
• The Other Side of Coexistence. An Analysis of Russian Foreign Policy . Pitman, 1970
• The Troubled Détente . New York University Press, 1976
• Soviet and Communist Quotations . Brassey's, 1987
• Stalin's other was. Soviet Grand Strategy 1939-1941 . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002
• Russia's life saver . Lexington Books, 2004
• The Choice of War. The Iraq War and the Just War Tradition . Praeger, 2009
• Assured Victory. How "Stalin the Great" Won the War, But Lost the Peace . Praeger, 2011

supporting documents

1. ^ Albert Loren Weeks: Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the USSR in World War II ; P. 175 (About the author)
2. ↑ Michael Jabara Carley: Review: Soviet Foreign Policy in the West, 1936-1941: A Review Article. In: Europe-Asia Studies 56, No. 7 (2004), pp. 1081-1093, here pp. 1083 f .; see. Sergej Slutsch: Stalin's "War Scenario 1939". A speech that never existed. The story of a fake. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 52 (2004), issue 4, pp. 597–636 ( online , accessed April 14, 2020).
3. ↑ “a caricature of the emigré or US State Department view of bellicose and duplicitous Soviet Union” - Michael Jabara Carley: Review: Soviet Foreign Policy in the West, 1936–1941: A Review Article. In: Europe-Asia Studies 56, No. 7 (2004), pp. 1081-1093, here p. 1090.