Grand Delusion : Stalin and the German

Grand Delusion draws on crucial new documentation to unravel the mystery of Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 and Stalin's enigmatic behaviour on the eve of the attack. Gabriel Gorodetsky challenges both the Russian revisionist view - that Stalin was about to invade Germany when Hitler made a preemptive strike, and the Cold War version popular in the West - that Stalin was simply outwitted. Instead he shows Stalin as rational and level headed - though unscrupulous - pursuing well-defined geopolitical interests, actively negotiating for European peace.
Gorodetsky bases his argument on the most thorough scrutiny ever of Soviet archives for the period, including the files of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the General Staff, the security forces, and the entire range of military intelligence available to Stalin on the eve of 'Operation Barbarossa'.

Gabriel Gorodetsky is Professor of History and Director of the Curiel Center for International Affairs at Tel Aviv University, where he holds the Samuel Rubin Chair for Russian and East European History.

List of Illustrations and Maps	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: The Premises of Stalin's Foreign Policy	p. 1
'Potential Enemies': London and Moscow at Loggerheads	p. 10
'The Truce of the Bear'	p. 10
'He Who Sups with the Devil'	p. 13
Cripps's Mission to Moscow	p. 19
The Scramble for the Balkans	p. 23
Soviet-Italian Collusion	p. 23
The Soviet Seizure of Bessarabia	p. 29
British Schemes for the Balkans	p. 35
The Vienna Award: The German Encroachment in the Balkans	p. 39
Clash over the Danube	p. 44
On a Collision Course	p. 48
Drang nach Osten: The Initial Plans	p. 48
Soviet Intelligence and the German Threat	p. 52
The Bulgarian Corridor to the Turkish Straits	p. 57
The Road to 'Barbarossa'	p. 67
Molotov's Visit to Berlin	p. 67
Hitler Opts for War	p. 75
Postscript: Preventive War?	p. 86
The Curtain Falls on the Balkans	p. 89
The British Perspective: Co-operation or Embroilment?	p. 89
Bulgaria Turns to the Axis	p. 95
The Urge for the Straits	p. 102
The Red Army on Alert	p. 115
The Soviet Defence Plans	p. 115
The Bankruptcy of the Military	p. 124
The Gathering Clouds	p. 130
At the Crossroads: The Yugoslav Coup d'Etat	p. 137
Churchill's Warning to Stalin	p. 155
British Intelligence and 'Barbarossa'	p. 155
The 'Cryptic' Warning	p. 159
Rumours of War and a Separate Peace	p. 170
The Bogy of a Separate Peace	p. 173
Aftermath	p. 176
Japan: The Avenue to Germany	p. 179
'Appeasement': A New German-Soviet Pact?	p. 202
'The Special Threatening Military Period'	p. 227
On the Alert	p. 227
Emergency Deployment	p. 237
The Flight of Rudolf Hess to England	p. 246
The Conspiracy	p. 246
The Mission	p. 248
Fictitious Negotiations	p. 254
'Running the Bolshevik Hare'	p. 262
Hess as Perceived by the Kremlin	p. 267
On the Eve of War	p. 275
'Mobilization Is War!'	p. 275
A Middle East Diversion: The Flaw in British Intelligence	p. 281
The Tass Communique	p. 287
Calamity	p. 294
Self-Deception	p. 294
London: 'This Avalanche Breathing Fire and Death'	p. 301
22 June 1941: The Long Weekend	p. 306
Conclusion	p. 316
Notes	p. 324
Bibliography	p. 382
Index	p. 394
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