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  • 18 - The Big Three and the Eastern Front

  • from Part VI - Comrades in Arms
  • Edited by David Stahel, University of New South Wales, Canberra
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Nazi-Soviet War
    Published online:
    13 November 2025
    Print publication:
    20 November 2025, pp 329-346

  • Summary

    This chapter documents the development of the wartime Grand Alliance between Britian, the Soviet Union, and the United States, with particular reference to the personal roles, outlooks, and interactions of Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt. Without the deep personal bonds of the ‘Big Three’, the Grand Alliance may have been stillborn or collapsed under the pressures, contradictions, and challenges of war.

  • 1 - German-Soviet Relations and Military Collaboration in the Inter-war Period

  • from Part I - Conceptions of War
  • Edited by David Stahel, University of New South Wales, Canberra
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Nazi-Soviet War
    Published online:
    13 November 2025
    Print publication:
    20 November 2025, pp 9-26

  • Summary

    On 23 August 1939, Hitler and Stalin agreed to a treaty of non-aggression, paving the way for the outbreak of war in Europe. Though this Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned contemporary observers, this chapter argues that the decision for partnership – and the military, economic, and intelligence cooperation it portended – had a long prehistory. Here, the Soviet-German relationship is traced from its inception in 1917 through Germany’s invasion of the USSR in 1941. It focuses on four distinct periods: early contacts during and immediately following the First World War, the Rapallo era of extensive cooperation between 1921 to 1933, the collapse of the Soviet-German relationship after 1933, and the resumption of partnership in 1939 with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. This chapter concludes that the two periods of Soviet-German cooperation were ultimately decisive factors in the breakdown of the post-war European status quo.

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