ANTONIO VARSORI is Professor of History of International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair Professor of History of European Integration at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Florence University. He has published extensively on Italy's foreign policy, the early stages of the Cold War, the European integration process and Britain's postwar foreign policy. ELENA CALANDRI is Lecturer in History of International Relations at Florence University. She has published a volume on the western powers and the defence of the Mediterranean in the early Cold War and numerous articles on the Cold War and the European integration process.

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction; A.Varsori PART I: PLANS FOR POSTWAR EUROPE 1943-1945 The United States from Roosevelt to Truman; K.Schwabe British Postwar Planning from Europe 1942-45; J.Kent De Gaulle's Plans for Postwar Europe; G.H.Soutou Soviet Plans for Postwar Europe; V.Mastny The Balkan Union: An Instance in the Postwar Plans of Small Countries; S.K.Pavlowitch Setting the Limits of the Soviet Hegemony in Europe; E.Calandri PART II: EAST-WEST EUROPEAN RELATIONS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: THE VIEW FROM THE WEST Great Britain, the Balkans, and the Division of Europe, 1943-45; B.Arcidiacono Franco-Czechoslovak Relations from 1944-1948 or the Munich Syndrome; A.Marés Italy and Eastern Europe, 1943-1948; G.Petracchi Socialist Parties between East and West; W.Loth Minor and Major Powers and the Failure of the Anti-Fascist Wartime Alliance; A.Varsori PART III: EAST-WEST EUROPEAN RELATIONS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: THE VIEW FROM THE EAST Bulgarian Cultural Elites' Perception of Europe 1944-1948; S.Moussakova Soviet Economic Imperialism and the Sovietization of Hungary; L.Borhi Yugoslavia Between the Two Emerging Blocs 1943-48: A Reassessment G.Valdevit Relations between East-European Countries: The Balkan Federation (1942-49); S.Bianchini Some Methodological Questions; J.W.Borejsza PART IV: THE PARTITION OF EUROPE 1947-1948 British Perceptions of the Sovietization of Eastern Europe, 1947-48; A.Lane The Cultural Policy of France in Eastern Europe; A.Guénard 'Unpleasant Facts' and Conflicted Responses: US Interpretation of Soviet Policies in East-Central Europe, 1943-48; R.W.Pruessen The Art of 'Failure to Preserve the Peace': British and French Policies towards Germany and the Council of Foreign Ministers, 1947; M.Kessel The Partition of Europe (1947-48): An Overview; S.Dockrill PART V: THE SETTING IN OF THE COLD WAR The Soviet Union and the Marshall Plan; M.M.Narinsky The United States, Europe and the Marshall Plan; E.Di NolfoThe Cominform as the Soviet Response to the Marshall Plan; A.D.Biagio First Budapest, then Prague and Berlin, Why Not Vienna? Austria and the Origins of the Cold War, 1947-48; O.Rathkolb The Partition of Europe; R.Girault Index