D. F. Fleming
Encyclopedia
Denna Frank Fleming, American revisionist
historian
and published author who wrote The Cold War and Its Origins, a seminal work on the Cold War
. Joseph Stromberg has called The Cold War and Its Origins "very detailed and, therefore, useful on the critical period, 1945-1947, before Stalin made his final decision to impose one-party Communist
regimes throughout Eastern Europe
," while arguing that "Fleming’s account suffers from his neo-Wilsonian preconceptions and his view that Stalin was significantly better than the defeated Hitler."
Historical revisionism
In historiography, historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of orthodox views on evidence, motivations, and decision-making processes surrounding a historical event...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and published author who wrote The Cold War and Its Origins, a seminal work on the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
. Joseph Stromberg has called The Cold War and Its Origins "very detailed and, therefore, useful on the critical period, 1945-1947, before Stalin made his final decision to impose one-party Communist
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
regimes throughout Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
," while arguing that "Fleming’s account suffers from his neo-Wilsonian preconceptions and his view that Stalin was significantly better than the defeated Hitler."
External links
- Denna Frank Fleming Papers: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/flemingd.shtml
- Chronology (of his life): http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/flemingd_chrono.shtml
- Big Wars and Small; New York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/11367
- Origin of the Cold War, Review by Alan Milchman: http://www.mises.org/journals/lar/pdfs/1_1/1_1_4.pdf