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

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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 Discover More About the author Abbreviations Bibliography List of Archives and Principal Collections Used Document Collections and Published Diaries Published and Online Works Cited or Profitably Consulted, Including Memoirs Notes Also By Sean Mcmeekin Praise for "Stalin’s War"