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

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List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - PART 1: THE SOVIET UNION AND THE POST-WAR EUROPEAN ORDER - Problems of Post-War Construction in Soviet Foreign Policy Conceptions during World War II A.M.Filitov - Stalin's Plans for Post-War Germany W.Loth - The Soviets and the Christian Democrats: the Challenge of the Bourgeois' Party in Eastern Germany, 1945-9 N.M.Naimark - The Soviet Union and the Berlin Crisis, 1948-9 M.M.Narinskii - The Soviet Liberation of Poland and the Polish Left, 1943-5 A.Prazmowska - The Soviet Union and Finland after the War, 1944-53 J.Nevakivi - The Limits to Soviet Influence: Soviet Diplomats and the Pursuit of Strategic Interests in Norway and Denmark, 1944-7 S.G.Holtsmark - A Balkan Union? Southeastern Europe in Soviet Conceptions of European Security, 1945-9 R.C.Nation - The Soviet Union and the Greek Question, 1946-53: Problems and Appraisals A.A.Ulunian - The Soviet Union and the Italian Communist Party, 1944-8 E.A.Rossi & V.Zaslavsky - Stalin and the Prospects for Post-War Europe: a Comment on the Papers of Filitov, Loth, Holtsmark A.Dallin - How much of the Cold War was Inevitable? A Comment on the Papers of Narinskii, Nevakivi, Nation, Ulunian W.Taubman PART 2: THE COMINFORM AND THE SOVIET BLOC - Stalin's Foreign Policy and the Cominform, 1947-53 N.I.Egorova - The Marshall Plan and the Founding of the Cominform, June-September 1947 A.D.Biagio - The Soviet-Yugoslav Conflict and the Soviet Bloc L.I.Gibianskii - A Challenge Let Drop: Soviet Foreign Policy, the Cominform and the Italian Communist Party, 1947-8 S.Pons - Vittorio Vidali and the Cominform, 1947-53 J.Pirievec - Revolution Released: Stalin, the Bulgarian Communist Party and the Establishment of the Cominform V.Dimitrov - PART 3: THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SOVIET UNION AND WESTERN EUROPE - From 'Ally' to Enemy: Britain's Relations with the Soviet Union, 1941-8 G.Warner - General De Gaulle and the Soviet Union, 1943-5: Ideology or European Equilibrium G.Soutou - Britain and the Death of Stalin A.Varsori - The Soviet Union and Germany in the Late Stalin Period, 1950-3 G.Wettig - Soviet-Italian Relations, 1945-8 N.D.Smirnova - Negotiating a Settlement for Italy and the Minor Axis Powers: Peace Diplomacy and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-7 I.Poggiolini - The Search for Simmetry: a Tentative View of Trieste, the Soviet Union and the Cold War G.Valdevit - Security and Perceptions of Threat in Italy in the Early Cold War Years, 1945-53 L.Nuti