Lexington Books
Pages: 186
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-0736-2 • Hardback • January 2004 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-0-7391-4563-0 • Paperback • February 2010 • $58.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-6054-1 • eBook • January 2004 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
Subjects: History / General,
History / Europe / General,
History / Military / General,
History / Military / Strategy,
History / Military / World War II,
History / Military / United States,
History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union,
History / United States / General,
History / United States / 20th Century,
History / Modern / 20th Century,
Political Science / General,
Political Science / International Relations / General
Albert L. Weeks has been an expert on Soviet Russia for more than fifty years. Weeks has served as a journalist, policy analyst, and professor and is credited with coining the name Sputnik while working for Newsweek in 1957. His books include Stalin's Other War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The "Arsenal of Democracy"
Chapter 3 Stalin and America
Chapter 4 Historical Roots of Lend-Lease—1
Chapter 5 Historical Roots of Lend-Lease—2
Chapter 6 Historical Roots of Lend-Lease—3
Chapter 7 Western-Soviet Relations Before Barbarossa
Chapter 8 The "Strange Alliance" Is Born
Chapter 9 Summation: Will the Debt Be Repaid?
Chapter 10 Appendix: Mutual Aid Agreement between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, June 11, 1942
Russia's Life-Saver lifts the curtain on exactly how crucial U.S. Lend-Lease aid was to the USSR's eventual successagainst Germany in World War II. Until now, all we in the West could really do was guess. We of course knew what we hadlent (the numerator) but we didn't know what the secretive Soviets needed (the denominator). Using new evidence frompreviously-closed Russian archives and new research by native Russian historians, and offering gripping conclusions, Dr.Weeks sets the record straight about this truly pivotal period of twentieth-century history.
— Kenneth MacWilliams, U.S. private investor in Russia since 1991; former Wall Street executive