![]() ![]() The article’s comparative analysis suggests that Stalin personally supervised all these border operations, aiming at goals involving security, geography and history, in the broadest sense. Two Asian cases cover much territory, with one in the Caucasus involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Turkey, and one further east concerning the formation of the Soviet borders with the Altai, Mongolia, Xinjiang, China and Japan. ![]() Two European cases concern Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania and Belarus. All the cases date from the period 1944-1946, when Soviet tanks seemed invincible. Making use of Russian archives declassified since 1991, this article analyzes four cases in which Stalin tried to shift the borders of the USSR, not only to expand, but also to gain other benefits inherent to the frontier’s dynamics. ![]()
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