Michael Jabara Carley
- Professeur titulaire
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'histoire
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx office C-6096
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Education Programs
- Social Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Humanities
Courses
- HST2296 La Seconde Guerre mondiale
- HST3259 Relations internationales : URSS et Russie
Areas of Expertise
- Soviet Union
- Russia (Russian Federation)
- Russia (Russian Federation)
- Cold War
- World War, 1939–1945
- International relations
- Politics
- Europe
- 20th century
- Between the wars
- France
- Great Britain
- Germany
- Communism
Michael J. Carley is an expert on 20th-century international relations and the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. His Research interests focus on relations between the Soviet Union and Western Europe and the United States between 1917 and 1945. He has written two books and some thirty papers and essays on French involvement in the Russian Civil War (1917-1921), Soviet relations with the Great Powers between the two world wars, issues of appeasement and the origins and conduct of the Second World War. He has been published in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia.
Professor Carley is working on two large projects. The first concerns the troubled relations between Soviet Russia/the USSR and the West from 1917 to 1930. His book, Silent Conflict: A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations, was published in late January 2014 by Rowman & Littlefield, in the US, and is available from Amazon and Indigo. It was recently recognized by the American magazine Choice as the Outstanding Academic Title, 2014 in Central and Eastern European history.
His second project deals with the origins and creation of the "Grand Alliance" against Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Work on this second title is progressing well, and the provisional title is A Near-Run Thing: The Grand Alliance of World War II.
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Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
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A Near-Run Thing: the Improbable Grand Alliance of World War II Projet de recherche au Canada / 2016 - 2023
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Publications importantes
Stalin’s Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936-1939, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, à paraitre, mai 2024.
Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023, xxi + 614pp.
On Sean McMeekin’s Stalin’s War, H-Diplo, Oct. 2022 (https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/10685214/h-diplo-roundtable-xxiv-5-stalin%E2%80%99s-war#reply-11225401).
«‘Новая история Второй мировой’, индоктринированная и ненадежная», Журнал российских и восточноевропейских исторических исследований (Moscou, RF), no. 3 (26) 2021, 226-49.
«КОМЕДИЯ, ОБЕРНУТАЯ ИРОНИЕЙ ВНУТРИ ТРАГЕДИИ»: ФРАНКО-СОВЕТСКИЕ ПОПЫТКИ КОНСУЛЬТАЦИЙ МЕЖДУ ГЕНШТАБАМИ (1936–1937), Журнал российских и восточноевропейских исторических исследований, no. 1 (24) 2021, 45-91.
«Почти не случилось: Невероятный великий союз в второй мировой войне (1929-1942)», Концепт (MGIMO, Moscou), 5, 1 (2021), 75-95. https://concept.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/476.
“In Support of President Putin's History of World War II,” Strategic Culture Foundation, Moscou, RF, 26 juin 2020 https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/26/in-support-of-president-putin-history-world-war-ii/.
“Victory Day: Remembering the Great Patriotic War,” Strategic Culture Foundation, 8 mai 1920 https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/08/victory-day-remembering-the-great-patriotic-war/.
“Once Burnt, Twice Shy: the Failure of Mutual Assistance Against Nazi Germany, 1933—1935,” Istoriia/История (Moscou), 3/(89), mai 2020 https://ras.jes.su/history/s207987840009129-0-1-en.
“Was the 1945 Yalta Conference a Mirage?,” Strategic Culture Foundation, 4 février 2020 https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/02/04/was-1945-yalta-conference-mirage/.
“What Poland Has to Hide About the Origins of World War II,” Strategic Culture Foundation, 12 janvier 2020 https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/12/what-poland-has-to-hide-about-the-origins-of-world-war-ii/ (en langue polonaise, Sputnik Polska, 14 janvier 2020 https://pl.sputniknews.com/pisza-dla-nas/2020011411648922-co-polska-musi-ukryc-o-poczatkach-ii-wojny-swiatowej-sputnik/).
“ОТДЕЛЯЯ ЗЕРНА ОТ ПЛЕВЕЛ: ИСТОКИ ВТОРОЙ МИРОВОЙ ВОЙНЫ,” Журналроссийскихивосточноевропейскихисторическихисследований, 4 (19), 2019, pp. 64-98. https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/otdelyaya-zerna-ot-plevel-istoki-vtoroy-mirovoy-voyny/viewer.
“The Canadian Prime Minister Needs a History Lesson,” Strategic Culture Foundation, 1 septembre 2019 https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/01/the-canadian-prime-minister-needs-a-history-lesson/.“The Russian V-Day Story (or the History of World War II not Often Heard in the West),” Strategic Culture Foundation (Moscow, RF), 9 mai 2018 https://www.academia.edu/36594311/_The_Russian_V-Day_Story_or_the_History_of_World_War_II_Not_Often_Heard_in_the_West_.
"Fiasco: The Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance that Never Was and the Unpublished British White Paper, 1939-1940," International History Review, 41, 4 (2019), pp. 701-28. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2018.1458043.
“АНТИБОЛЬШЕВИЗМ ВО ВНЕШНЕЙ ПОЛИТИКЕ ФРАНЦИИ: ПОЛЬСКИЙ КРИЗИС 1920 г.,” Журнал российских и восточноевропейских исторических исследований (Moscou, RF), no. 3 (10) 2017, pp. 52-73. https://cyberleninka.ru/article/v/antibolshevizm-vo-vneshney-politike-frantsii-polskiy-krizis-1920-g.
“How Quickly Britain Abandoned the Grand Alliance for the Cold War,” dans Koch, Christophe (ed), Das Potsdamer Abkommen 1945–2015: Rechtliche Bedeutung und historische Auswirkungen. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2017, pp. 201-214.
“Why the West Falsifies the History of World War II,” Strategic Culture Foundation, 29 novembre 2016 (http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/11/29/why-the-west-falsifies-the-history-of-world-war-ii.html).
Une Guerre sourde: l'émergence de l'Union soviétique et les puissances occidentales Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal (PUM), 2016, 590pp.
“Who Was Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin?” Europe-Asia Studies, 67, 7 (sept. 2015), pp. 1030-1044.
"Who Betrayed Whom? Franco-Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1932-1939," dans Koch, C. (ed) Gab es einen Stalin-Hitler-Pakt? Charakter, Bedeutung und Deutung des deutsch-sowjetischen Nichtangriffsvertrages vom 23. August 1939. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2015, pp. 119-37.
Silent Conflict: A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, 478pp.
"«Только СССР имеет... Чистые Руки»: СССР, Коллективная Безопасность в Европе и Судьба Чехословакии (1934–1938 годы) ," Новая и новейшая история (Moscou), nº 1 (janv.-févr. 2012), pp. 44-81, traduction russe de l'article "Clean Hands". Publié une première fois sous le titre «Tолько у СССР pуки осталось чистыми» dans S. E. Naryshkin et A. V. Torkunov (dirs.),Великая Победа, 8 vols. Moscou, 2010-2011, VII, pp. 22-55.
"The Cold War is 'Long Over', or is it?," Canadian Journal of History, XLVI, 3 (hiver 2011), pp. 627-640.
"'Only the USSR has... Clean Hands' : the Soviet Perspective on the Failure of Collective Security and the Collapse of Czechoslovakia, 1934-1938", 1er partie, Diplomacy & Statecraft (UK), 21, 2 (juin 2010), pp. 202-225; 2e partie, 21, 3 (sept. 2010), pp. 368-96.
1939, l'alleanza che non si fece e l'origine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale (version italienne de 1939: The Alliance that Never Was and the Coming of World War II). Reggio Calabria, Italie, Città del Sole Edizioni, 2009, 356pp.
"1933-39 : « La drôle d'avant guerre » et l'alliance de la dernière chance," Histoire(s) de la dernière guerre, 1939-1945 : au jour le jour, nº 1 (sept. 2009), pp. 14-20.
"Caught in a Cleft-Stick: Soviet Diplomacy and the Spanish Civil War," dans Gaynor Johnson (ed.), The International Context of the Spanish Civil War Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2009, pp. 151-180.
“Years of War in the East, 1939-1945: A Review Article,” Europe-AsiaStudies (anciennement Soviet Studies), 59, 2 (2007), pp. 331-352.
"An Eye on France from the Soviet Embassy on the rue de Grenelle, 1924‑1940," Diplomacy & Statecraft, 17, 2 (2006), pp. 295‑346.
"World War II: Grand Strategy and Summit Diplomacy ," dans Gordon Martel (dir.), A Companion to Europe 1900-1945, Londres, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp. 425-440.
"Soviet Foreign Policy in the West: 1936‑1941: A Review Article," Europe‑Asia Studies, 56, 7 (2004), pp. 1080‑1092.
1939: L'alliance de la dernière chance: Une réinterprétation des origines de la Seconde Guerre mondiale Montréal: PUM, 2001.
Additional Information
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1939: l'alliance de la dernière chance
Une réinterprétation des origines de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Michael J. Carley, 366 pages • septembre 2001
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Une guerre sourde : L'émergence de l'Union soviétique et les puissances occidentales
Par Michael Jabara Carley. Traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Michel Buttiens avec la collaboration de Marie-José, Raymond, Collection « PUM », 594 pages • septembre 2016
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06-01-2015 Félicitations au professeur Michael J. Carley!
Le livre du professeur Michael J. Carley, "Silent Conflict : A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) vient d'être reconnu par le magazine américain Choice comme « Outstanding Academic Title, 2014 » en histoire de l'Europe centrale et de l'Est. Félicitations!
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Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936
Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin’s Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the 1930s. The book explores the Soviet Union’s efforts to organize a defensive alliance against Nazi Germany, in effect rebuilding the anti-German Entente of the First World War.
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Tainaia voina: Zapad protiv Rossii, 1917-1930
Russian translation of "Silent Conflict". Published by IstLit (Moscow, RF)
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Silent Conflict :A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, xxxi + 445p
This deeply informed book traces the dramatic history of early Soviet-western relations after World War I. Michael Jabara Carley provides a lively exploration of the formative years of Soviet foreign policy making after the Bolshevik Revolution, especially focusing on Soviet relations with the West during the 1920s. Carley demonstrates beyond doubt that this seminal period—termed the “silent conflict” by one Soviet diplomat—launched the Cold War. He shows that Soviet-western relations, at best
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Stalin’s Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936-1939, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming,
In the spring of 1936, the Soviet effort to build an anti-Nazi alliance was failing. Stalin continued nevertheless to support diplomatic efforts to stop Nazi aggression in Europe. In Stalin’s Failed Alliance, the sequel to Stalin’s Gamble, Michael Jabara Carley continues his re-evaluation of European diplomacy during the critical events between May 1936 and August 1939. This narrative history examines the great crises of the pre-war period – the Spanish Civil War, Anschluss, and Munich accord
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