Introduction, International system and the origins of the Cold War / David S. Painter and Melyvn P. Leffler
National security and US foreign policy / Melvyn P. Leffler
Stalin and Soviet foreign policy / Geoffrey Roberts
Atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War / Martin J. Sherwin
Stalin and the bomb / David Holloway
Iranian crisis of 1946 and the origins of the Cold War / Fernande Scheid Raine
Turkish war scare of 1946 / Eduard Mark
Greek Civil War / Thanasis D. Sfikas
British policy and the origins of the Cold War / John Kent
European dimension of the Cold War / David Reynolds
Russians in Germany / Norman Naimark
Communism in Bulgaria / Vesselin Dimitrov
Stalin and the Italian communists / Silvio Pons
Hegemony and autonomy within the Western alliance / Charles S. Maier
From the Marshall Plan to the Third World / Robert E. Wood
Revolutionary movements in Asia and the Cold War / Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine
Stalin and the Korean War / Kathryn Weathersby
Mao and Sino-American relations / Chen Jian
Impact of the Cold War on Latin America / Leslie Bethell and Ian Roxborough
United States, the Cold War, and the color line / Thomas Borstelmann
Epilogue, End of the Cold War / David S. Painter and Melvyn P. Leffler.