Russia's Life-Saver
Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2004
Summary
The United States is a country of machines. Without the use of these machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.' —Josef Stalin (1943), quoted in W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946, Random House, N.Y., 1975, p. 277 The United States shipped more than $12 billion in Lend-Lease aid to Stalin's Russia during World War II. Materials lent, beginning in late 1941 before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, included airplanes and tanks, locomotives and rails, construction materials, entire military production assembly lines, food and clothing, aviation fuel, and much else. Lend-Lease is now recognized by post-Soviet Russian historians as essential to the Soviet war effort. Wielding many facts and statistics never before published in the U.S., author Albert L. Weeks keenly analyzes the diplomatic rationale for and results of this assistance. Russia's Life-Saver is a brilliant contribution to the study of U.S.-Soviet relations and its role in World War II.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2004
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-0736-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-6054-1
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 176
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Chapter 01. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
- Chapter 02. The “Arsenal of Democracy” No access Pages 11 - 30
- Chapter 03. Stalin and America No access Pages 31 - 51
- Chapter 04. Historical Roots of Lend-Lease—I No access Pages 52 - 64
- Chapter 05. Historical Roots of Lend-Lease—II No access Pages 65 - 85
- Chapter 06. Western-Soviet Relations before “Barbarossa” No access Pages 86 - 106
- Chapter 07. The “Strange Alliance” Is Born No access Pages 107 - 127
- Chapter 08. Summation: Will the Debt Be Repaid? No access Pages 128 - 136
- Appendix. Mutual Aid Agreement between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: June 11, 1942 No access Pages 137 - 140
- Tables No access Pages 141 - 152
- Bibliography No access Pages 153 - 164
- Index No access Pages 165 - 174
- About the Author No access Pages 175 - 176





