Stalin's American Policy
From Entente to Detente to Cold War
6 March 1985
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
How and why did the Cold War arise out of wartime entente? Here, in a study focused on Soviet foreign policy from 1941 to 1953, William Taubman describes an intermediate stage of détente that Stalin abandoned reluctantly only after the Western powers did. Stalin, seen here as cautious and even conservative, viewed America as hostile and devious. His détente was designed to undermine Western interests.