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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