Michael J. Carley is an expert on 20^th-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.

Michael Jabara Carley est né à Brooklyn (New York) et a étudié à la George Washington University, ainsi qu'à la Queen's University de Kingston (Ontario). Après avoir été professeur d'histoire à l'Université Akron (Ohio), il devient directeur du Département d'histoire de l'Université de Montréal (2007-2014). En tant que professeur titulaire, il poursuit depuis plusieurs décennies des recherches sur les relations entre l'URSS/la Fédération de Russie et les pays occidentaux.

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.