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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Weeks, Albert Loren, 1923- Russia's life-saver. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2010, ©2004 (DLC) 2003020274 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Albert Loren Weeks |
| ISBN: | 9780739160541 0739160540 9780739160541 0739160540 |
| OCLC Number: | 647873856 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents: | Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The "Arsenal of Democracy" Chapter 3 Stalin and America Chapter 4 Historical Roots of Lend-Lease-1 Chapter 5 Historical Roots of Lend-Lease-2 Chapter 6 Historical Roots of Lend-Lease-3 Chapter 7 Western-Soviet Relations Before Barbarossa Chapter 8 The "Strange Alliance" Is Born Chapter 9 Summation: Will the Debt Be Repaid? Chapter 10 Appendix: Mutual Aid Agreement between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, June 11, 1942 |
| Responsibility: | Albert L. Weeks. |
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Russia's Life-Saver lifts the curtain on exactly how crucial U.S. Lend-Lease aid was to the USSR's eventual successagainst Germany in World War II. Until now, all we in the West could really do was guess. We of course knew what we hadlent (the numerator) but we didn't know what the secretive Soviets needed (the denominator). Using new evidence frompreviously-closed Russian archives and new research by native Russian historians, and offering gripping conclusions, Dr.Weeks sets the record straight about this truly pivotal period of twentieth-century history. -- Kenneth MacWilliams, U.S. private investor in Russia since 1991; former Wall Street executive Read more...

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- Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
- United States -- Military relations -- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union -- Military relations -- United States.
- HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
- Equipment and supplies.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Military relations.
- Soviet Union.
- United States.

