The Soviet

'Road to War' is the first major assessment of Stalin's pre-war foreign policy since the start of glasnost. Hitherto unseen Soviet archive material and frank testimonies from crucial Russian eyewitnesses shed new light on Stalin's mysterious and often controversial relationship with Hitler.
Why did Stalin sign a pact in 1939 with Hitler, the man who had sworn to destroy the Soviet Union? And why was Stalin so unready for the massive Nazi onslaught in June 1941 - despite all the warnings of the German build-up?