Table of Contents

ChronologyAbbreviations Who's WhoGlossaryMapsList of platesPART ONE: Background
1. Setting the ScenePART TWO: Descriptive analysis2. Moscow's View of the World3. Conflicts During the War4. 1945: The Turning Point 5. Decisions Which Led to Division 6. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan 7. The Soviet Response PART THREE: Assessment 8. Was it all Inevitable? PART FOUR: DOCUMENTSFURTHER READINGREFERENCES

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About the Author

Martin McCauley is former Senior lecturer in Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. An extremely accomplished author, he has written three other Seminar Studies volumes: The Khruschev Era, Russia, America and the Cold War and Stalin and Stalinism. He is also the author of Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia and Afghanistan and Central Asia.