Table of Contents
A Note on Dates, Names, Translation, and Transliteration ix
Introduction: Whose War? 1
Prologue: May 5, 1941 7
I Before the Storm: The Main Currents of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1938
1 World Revolution 13
2 Stalin Makes His Mark 23
3 Strategic Coup in Washington 32
4 Behind the Popular Front 46
II "Huge and Hateful": The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
5 Courting Hitler 71
6 Gangster Pact, Part I: Poland 89
7 Gangster Pact, Part II: Finland 113
8 Maximum Danger: Finland, Baku, and the Katyn Massacre 133
9 Stalin Strikes: The Baltic, Bessarabia, and Bukovina 156
10 Showdown at the Danube Delta 178
11 Summit in Berlin: The Four-Power Pact? 193
12 Hitler Bars the Door 208
III Preparing for Armageddon
13 Mobilizing the Proletariat 219
14 The Battle for Belgrade 235
15 Operation Snow: Stalin Secures His Eastern Flank 251
16 To the Brink 265
17 Hitler Smashes Stalin's War Machine 286
18 Terror at the Front-and in the Rear 306
19 War for Aluminum 323
20 On the Ropes 336
IV Capitalist Lifeline
21 Lifting the Moral Embargo 347
22 The Hinge of Fate: December 1941 374
23 Capitalist Rope 389
24 Just-in-Time Delivery: Lend-Lease and Stalingrad 403
V Second Front
25 Keeping Stalin Happy: Unconditional Surrender and Katyn 435
26 Stopping Citadel: The Second Front? 456
27 Operation Tito 474
28 Teheran and Cairo 486
29 Second Front 516
VI Plunder
30 Warsaw 549
31 Soviet High Tide in Washington: The Morgenthau Plan 568
32 Moscow and Yalta: Unfinest Hour of the Anglo-Americans 585
33 Booty 609
34 Red Star over Asia: The Final Wages of Lend-Lease 630
Epilogue: Stalin's Slave Empire and the Price of Victory 651
Acknowledgments 667
Abbreviations 671
Notes 673
Bibliography 767
List of Archives and Principal Collections Used 767
Document Collections and Published Diaries 788
Published and Online Works Cited or Profitably Consulted, Including Memoirs 791
Index 813
Photo sections appear after pages 216 and 432