The Failure of Peace in Europe, 1943-48

BRUNO ARCIDIACONO Professor of History of International Relations at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales of the University of Geneva STEFANO BIANCHINI Lecturer in History of Eastern Europe at the University of Bologna JERZY BOREJSZA Professor of History at the Historical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw LASZLO BORHI Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest ANNA DI BIAGIO Associate Professor of History of Eastern Europe at the University of Florence ENNIO DI NOLFO Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Florence and Deputy-Rector of the University of Florence SAKI DOCKRILL Senior Reader in International History at King's College, London RENAe GIRAULT was Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Paris I Sorbonne ANNIE GUAeNARD Agregee d'histoire, Ph. D. in History and a member of the P. Renouvin Institute (Paris) JOHN KENT Reader of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science MARTINA KESSEL Professor of Modern History and Gender History at the University of Bielefeld ANN LANE Reader of International History at the Queen's University Belfast WILFRIED LOTH Professor of Modern History at the University of Essen VOJTECH MASTNY Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, in charge of the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact ANTOINE MARAeS Director of the French Cultural Institute in Prague VETLA MOUSSAKOVA Maitre de Conferences at the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle MIKHAIL NARINSKY Professor of International Relations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) STEVAN K. PAVLOWITCH Emeritus Professor of History of the Balkans at the University of Southampton GIORGIO PETRACCHI Professor of History of Eastern Europe at the University of Udine RONALD W. PRUESSEN Professor of History at the University of Toronto (Missisauga) OLIVER RATHKOLB Research coordinator at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue KLAUS SCHWABE Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Aachen GEORGES-HENRI SOUTOU Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris IV Pantheon Sorbonne GIAMPAOLO VALDEVIT Lecturer in International History at the University of Trieste

With the aid of official records of former Communist countries, this analysis of diplomatic relations, economic imperialism, and cultural influences on great, middle and small rank European powers, reveals how and why the victors failed to reach an agreement of postwar order in Europe.Bringing together the work of scholars from Eastern and Western Europe, this volume re-examines the crucial moments in the five years leading up to the Cold War. With the aid of new evidence from the official records of former Communist countries, this fresh analysis of diplomatic relations, economic imperialism, and cultural influences on great, middle and small-rank European power, reveals how and why the victors failed to reach an agreement of postwar order in Europe, a failure that resulted in a conflict that shaped the second half of the twentieth century.