"[T]he most satisfactory post-revisionist treatment of American policy making to date."--New York Times Book Review.

Originally published: Ã1972. With new introd.

Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes -- The Past as Prologue: The American Vision of the Postwar World -- The Soviet Union and World Revolution: The American View, 1941-1944 -- Cooperating for Victory: Defeating Germany and Japan -- Repression versus Rehabilitation: The Problem of Germany -- Security versus Self-Determination: The Problem of Eastern Europe -- Economic Relations: Lend-Lease and the Russian Loan -- Victory and Transition: Harry S. Truman and the Russians -- The Impotence of Omnipotence: American Diplomacy, the Atomic Bomb, and the Postwar World -- Getting Tough with Russia: The Reorientation of American Policy, 1946 -- To the Truman Doctrine: Implementing the New Policy -- Conclusion: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War -- Bibliography -- Index.