Lenin, Stalin and the West 1917-1939 -- The Icebreaker controversy and Soviet intentions in 1941 -- Barbarossa -- The battle of Moscow -- The tide turns : the battle for Stalingrad -- The battle of Kursk and the race for the Dnepr -- The siege of Leningrad -- Lend-lease aid, the Soviet economy and the Soviet Union at war -- The Soviet partisan movement -- The 'ten "Stalinist" crushing blows' of 1944 -- From the Vistula to Berlin : the end of the Reich -- The Soviet invasion of Manchuria.