5 FOREWORD
  CHAPTER I
  THE GROWING DANGER OF WAR.
THE SOVIET UNION’S DRIVE
FOR PEACE AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY.
1933–1937
17 1933–1937: The International Situation Deteriorates.
The Policy of “Non-intervention”
28 The Danger of War Increases.
The USSR Struggles
to Uphold Peace
39 Soviet Proposals for Strengthening Peace
and Developing Co-operation Between die USSR
and Capitalist Countries
44 The Soviet Programme for a System of Collective
Security and the Struggle for Its Realisation
(1933–1935)
56 Soviet Treaties of Mutual Assistance
with France and Czechoslovakia
60 The USSR’s Activities in the League of Nations
and at International Conferences
on the Organisation of a Collective Rebuff
to Fascist Aggression
66 The USSR and the German-Italian
Intervention in Spain
70 The USSR’s Struggle Against Japanese
Aggression in the Far East
73 The Failure of Anglo-French Attempts
to Come to Terms with Hitler (1935–1937)
  CHAPTER II
  THE WESTERN POWERS’ POLICY OF AGREEMENT
WITH THE AGGRESSIVE POWERS (1938).
THE USSR AS A MAJOR FACTOR OF PEACE
82 [introduction.]
83 German Seizure of Austria.
The USSR Stands for Collective
Action Against the Aggressor
87 Preparations for the Munich Deal.
The USSR Is the Only
Defender of Czechoslovakia
  CHAPTER III
  THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN EUROPE IN 1939.
THE SOVIET UNION’S EFFORTS TO ATTAIN
COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND PREVENT WAR
117 [introduction.]
139 The Anglo-German Secret Negotiations
in the Summer of 1939
144 The Anglo-Franco-Soviet Military Negotiations
in 1939 and Their Disruption
by the Western Powers
158 The Soviet-German Treaty of 1939:
the Only Way to Avoid
an Imperialist Anti-Soviet Front Being Created
and to Prolong the Peace Period for the USSR
  CHAPTER IV
  THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
THE SOVIET UNION’S FOREIGN POLICY
DURING THE “PHONEY WAR”
(September 1939–April 1940)
170 [introduction.]
173 The USSR’s Struggle to Ensure the Security
USSR’s Struggle Its Borders and Restrict the Sphere
of Aggression during the “Phoney War”
174 The Reunification of Western Ukraine
and Western Byelorussia with the USSR
177 The Soviet Union Concludes Pacts
of Mutual Assistance with the Baltic States
178 The USSR’s Struggle for the Security
of Its North-West Borders
183 The Soviet-Finnish Conflict 1939–1940.
Peace Treaty of March 12, 1940
  CHAPTER V
  THE SOVIET UNION’S STRUGGLE FOR PEACE
AND SECURITY AGAINST THE SPREAD
OF FASCIST AGGRESSION
(April 1940–June 1941)
191 [no sub-sections]
234 CONCLUSION
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