The Korean war

[Brad De Long]

>>>Also note Brad's entirely conventional (and wrong) summary of the
>>>Korean War ("Stalin took off the leash and Kim Il Sung began the Korean
>>>War").  As Rakesh has pointed out, Bruce Cumings two volume history of
>>>the Korean War should be consulted before so easily swallowing this
>>>wholesale
>>
>>You are... badly out of date. Interesting things have been emerging from
>>the Soviet archives that undermine Bruce Cumings' assessment.
>
>I'm interested in this.  But since I'm too lazy to go read about it myself,
>does anyone have a sufficient understanding to summarize Cumings' thesis?
>Brad, what's in those Soviet archives that undermines Cumings' work?
>
>Brett

Interesting documents that people working on the Cold War International
History Project got out of Soviet archives. Let me look for a copy of
them...

Brad