Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949
In: Seminar Studies
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology -- Who's who -- Maps -- PART I: The background -- 1. The background -- Socialism before 1917 -- Rus to Russia -- The United States of America before 1914 -- Europe -- The United States of America after 1914 -- Russia -- President Woodrow Wilson -- The Marxists -- The October Revolution and Lenin's Revolution from above -- The impact of the October Revolution on Europe and the rest of the world -- Stalin emerges as the leader, then autocrat and then despot -- The United States and the Soviet Union before 1941 -- The United Kingdom's relations with the Soviet Union -- Soviet foreign policy in the 1930s -- Was there an alternative to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? -- Operation Barbarossa (Red Beard), 22 June 1941 -- PART II: Descriptive analysis -- 2. Conflict -- The Second Front -- Poland -- 3. Operation Unthinkable and Operation Pincher: World War III? -- Could the Soviet Union have occupied Western and Southern Europe in 1945? -- 4. Atomic diplomacy -- 5. Eastern Europe -- Poland -- Hungary -- East Germany (German Democratic Republic) -- Czechoslovakia -- Romania -- Bulgaria -- Yugoslavia -- Albania -- British policy in the Balkans -- Greece -- US policy in the region -- 6. The Middle East -- Turkey -- Iran -- 7. East Asia and Indo-China -- China -- Korea -- Vietnam -- Laos -- Malaya -- 8. Bretton Woods, the IMF and the World Bank -- US capital for the Soviet Union? -- 9. Conflict over Germany and the Soviet Union in a new light -- The Soviet Union in a new light -- 10. Decisions which led to division -- Containment -- 11. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan -- 12. The Soviet response -- The Cominform -- Tito expelled -- The Berlin Blockade -- 13. Espionage -- Political.