Stalin’s war: a new history of World War II

Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
A Note on Dates, Names, Translation, and Transliteration
Introduction: Whose War?
Prologue: May 5, 1941
I. Before the Storm: The Main Currents of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–1938
1 World Revolution
2 Stalin Makes His Mark
3 Strategic Coup in Washington
4 Behind the Popular Front
II. “Huge and Hateful”: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
5 Courting Hitler
6 Gangster Pact, Part I: Poland
7 Gangster Pact, Part II: Finland
8 Maximum Danger: Finland, Baku, and the Katyn Massacre
9 Stalin Strikes: The Baltic, Bessarabia, and Bukovina
10 Showdown at the Danube Delta
11 Summit in Berlin: The Four-Power Pact?
12 Hitler Bars the Door
III. Preparing for Armageddon
13 Mobilizing the Proletariat
14 The Battle for Belgrade
15 Operation Snow: Stalin Secures His Eastern Flank
16 To the Brink
17 Hitler Smashes Stalin’s War Machine
18 Terror at the Front—and in the Rear
19 War for Aluminum
20 On the Ropes
IV. Capitalist Lifeline
21 Lifting the Moral Embargo
22 The Hinge of Fate: December 1941
23 Capitalist Rope
24 Just-in-Time Delivery: Lend-Lease and Stalingrad
V. Second Front
25 Keeping Stalin Happy: Unconditional Surrender and Katyn
26 Stopping Citadel: The Second Front?
27 Operation Tito
28 Teheran and Cairo
29 Second Front
VI. Plunder
30 Warsaw
31 Soviet High Tide in Washington: The Morgenthau Plan
32 Moscow and Yalta: Unfinest Hour of the Anglo-Americans
33 Booty
34 Red Star over Asia: The Final Wages of Lend-Lease
Epilogue: Stalin’s Slave Empire and the Price of Victory
Photos
Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
Bibliography
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Notes
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