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American Opinion and the Russian Alliance, 1939-1945 Am erican O pinion and the Russian A lliance, 1939-1945 B y Ralph B . Levering The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill Copyright ® 1976 by The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America ISBN 0-8078-1260-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-1996 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Levering, Ralph B American opinion and the Russian alliance, 1939-1945. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. United States—Foreign relations—Russia. "2. Russia—Foreign relations—United States. 3. Russia—Foreign opinion, American. I. Title. v -E183.8.R9L47 327.73*047 76-1996 ISBN 0-8078-1260-9 \ To Patty Preface I xiii 1. Introduction: O f Matter and Method I 3 2. Friend of Fascism, 1939-1941 I 15 3. Is Russia Our Ally? I 39 4. Where Is the Second Front? I 63 5. American Goodwill at High Tide I 91 6. Russia in the Postwar World I 146 7. Ominous Drift: The Election of 1944, Yalta, and Beyond I 169 8. Conclusion: From Partnership to Cold War I 200 Notes I 211 Bibliography I 233 Index I 255 Illustrations Between pages 62 and 63 Cover of Time, 1 January 1940 Cover of Newsweek, 6 October 1941 Cover of Newsweek, 22 June 1942 Cover of Time, 14 December 1942 Cover of Time, 21 December 1942 Cover of Time, 4 January 1943 Cover of Life, 29 March 1943 Cover of Time, 5 February 1945 Between pages 110 and 111 Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Carter; and Mme. Litvinojf Crowd at Second-Front Rally Molotov, Barnes, Stalin} Pavlov, Willkie, and Coates Davies, Litvinoffy and Wallace President Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Mrs. Hull Johnston and Dewey President Roosevelt addresses Congress American troops and Soviet soldiers

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In this analysis of the years of greatest American friendship with the Soviet Union, Levering comes to two conclusions. First, cosmopolitan, educated Americans of all classes were much more likely to change their negative attitudes of 1939 to positive ones by 1943 than were the provincial and poorly
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