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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Name: Naimark, Norman M., author.

Title: Stalin and the fate of Europe : the postwar struggle for sovereignty / Norman M. Naimark.

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019012559

Subjects: LCSH: Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. | Cold War. | Communist countries— Boundaries. | Europe—History—1945- | Europe—Politics and

government—1945- | Soviet Union—Foreign relations—1945-1991. | North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Classification: LCC D843 .N266 2019 | DDC 940.55/4—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019012559

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