CONTENTS // Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes xiii // 1. The Past as Prologue: The American Vision of the Postwar World 1 // 2. The Soviet Union and World Revolution: The American View, // 1941-1944 32 // 3. Cooperating for Victory: Defeating Germany and Japan 63 // 4. Repression versus Rehabilitation: The Problem of Germany 95 // 5. Security versus Self-Determination: The Problem of Eastern Europe 133 // 6. Economic Relations: Lend-Lease and the Russian Loan 174 // 7. Victory and Transition: Harry S. Truman and the Russians 198 // S. The Impotence of Omnipotence: American Diplomacy, the Atomic // Bomb, and the Postwar World 244 // Getting Tough with Russia: The Reorientation of American Policy, // 1946 282 // 1 To the Truman Doctrine: Implementing the New Policy 316 // Conclusion: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 353 // Bibliography 363 // Index 383