The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War, 1943–53

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Problems of Post-War Construction in Soviet Foreign Policy Conceptions during World War II....Pages 3-22
Stalin’s Plans for Post-War Germany....Pages 23-36
The Soviets and the Christian Democrats: the Challenge of a ‘Bourgeois’ Party in Eastern Germany, 1945–9....Pages 37-56
The Soviet Union and the Berlin Crisis, 1948–9....Pages 57-75
The Soviet Liberation of Poland and the Polish Left, 1943–5....Pages 76-88
The Soviet Union and Finland after the War, 1944–53....Pages 89-105
The Limits to Soviet Influence: Soviet Diplomats and the Pursuit of Strategic Interests in Norway and Denmark, 1944–7....Pages 106-124
A Balkan Union? Southeastern Europe in Soviet Security Policy, 1944–8....Pages 125-143
The Soviet Union and ‘the Greek Question’, 1946–53: Problems and Appraisals....Pages 144-160
The Soviet Union and the Italian Communist Party, 1944–8....Pages 161-184
Stalin and the Prospects for Post-War Europe: a Comment on Chapters 1, 2 and 7....Pages 185-190
How much of the Cold War was Inevitable? A Comment on Chapters 4, 6, 8 and 9....Pages 191-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Stalin’s Foreign Policy and the Cominform, 1947–53....Pages 197-207
The Marshall Plan and the Founding of the Cominform, June–September 1947....Pages 208-221
The Soviet-Yugoslav Conflict and the Soviet Bloc....Pages 222-245
A Challenge Let Drop: Soviet Foreign Policy, the Cominform and the Italian Communist Party, 1947–8....Pages 246-263
Vittorio Vidali and the Cominform, 1947–53....Pages 264-271
Revolution Released: Stalin, the Bulgarian Communist Party and the Establishment of the Cominform....Pages 272-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
From ‘Ally’ to Enemy: Britain’s Relations with the Soviet Union, 1941–8....Pages 293-309
General de Gaulle and the Soviet Union, 1943–5: Ideology or European Equilibrium....Pages 310-333
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Britain and the Death of Stalin....Pages 334-355
The Soviet Union and Germany in the Late Stalin Period, 1950–3....Pages 356-374
Soviet-Italian Relations, 1945–8....Pages 375-382
Negotiating a Settlement for Italy and the Minor Axis Powers: Peace Diplomacy and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–7....Pages 383-394
The Search for Symmetry: a Tentative View of Trieste, the Soviet Union and the Cold War....Pages 395-411
Security and Perceptions of Threat in Italy in the Early Cold War Years, 1945–53....Pages 412-429
Back Matter....Pages 431-448