War and Diplomacy

This study uses documents from Stalin's personal files in order to study the history of the creation of the anti-Hitler coalition. The mechanisms of decision-making and its key figures of the time are incorporated in the discussion. First Published in 1996. The value of this collection of Soviet documents, edited by Professor Rzheshevsky, is that it enables us, more fully than before, to understand in detail, for the period 1941-42, what were the tensions which threatened cooperation and how, nonetheless, sufficient agreement was maintained to keep the alliance from falling apart.