Table of Contents

1. Muscovy and the entry of Sweden into the Thirty Years' War; 2. Gustavus Adolphus and preparation for the Smolensk War; 3. The conflict concerning the Russo-Swedish alliance in 1631–2; 4. The social and political situation in Germany at the time of Gustavus Adolphus's invasion, 1630–1; 5. Russia's 'Great Embassy' to Sweden in 1633; 6. Death of the leaders; 7. Death of the alliance.

Promotional Information

An edited translation of the great Soviet historian B. F. Porshnev's exploration of the Thirty Years' War.