Stalin's Foreign Policy Reappraised

It seems to me remarkable how much a study like this represents a community enterprise. I have forgotten how many supporting troops are supposed to be required to keep one soldier in the field, but I am sure the proportions are not less in mounting one scholar at the point o£ communion with his typewriter. My words of appreciation are intended as a testimony to the public and private generosity which sustains such efforts as these. And by generosity I refer not only to material support but also to the largeness of spirit that is expressed in the sharing of knowledge and in the giving of one's self. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION TO THE ARGUMENT II. THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW IN THE SPRING OF 1949 III. PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE, SWEET AND SOUR IV. THE PEACE MOVEMENT AS AN INSTRUMENT OF DIPLOMACY V. EFFECTS OF THE CHANGING POWER BALANCE VI. SOVIET POLICY DURING THE KOREAN WAR: FIRST PHASE VII. SOVIET POLICY DURING THE KOREAN WAR: SECOND AND THIRD PHASES VIII. THE DIPLOMACY OF COEXISTENCE, 1951–1952 IX. THE USE OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT AND THE FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY, 1951–1952 X. THE NINETEENTH PARTY CONGRESS XI. THE EVOLUTION OF SOVIET POLICY BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES INDEX BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES INDEX In this book, Marshall D. Shulman emphasizes that an analysis of Soviet foreign policy during the closing years of Stalin's life from the perspective of the present calls into question many common assumptions about the character of that policy. SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.