Churchill, Whitehall, and the Soviet Union, 1940-45

the long version

"This book uses neglected material showing British analyses of the Soviet internal situation and interweaves it with evidence of views of Soviet foreign policy to produce a new perspective on British wartime policy to the USSR. Modifying their existing attitudes through a mixture of observation, analysis and guesswork, Churchill and his colleagues came to the conclusion that within certain limitations, cooperation was indeed possible and could be achieved by skilful British policy. As this book goes on to show, formulating and executing such a policy was a different matter."--BOOK JACKET.