Making the Stalinist revolution
Exterminating internal threats to socialist unity
Soviet aims and Western concessions
Restoring the Stalinist dictatorship in a broken society
Stalin and Truman: false starts
Potsdam, the bomb and Asia
Soviet retribution and post-war trials
Settling retribution and ethnic groups
Reaffirming communist ideology
New communist regimes in Poland and Czechoslovakia
The pattern of dictatorships: Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary
Communism in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece
The passing of the communist moment in Western Europe
Stalin's choices and the future of Europe
Stalinist failures: Yugoslavia and Germany
Looking at Asia from the Kremlin
New waves of Stalinization
Stalin's last will and testament.
