1. On this overarching aim, Vladimir O. Pechatnov, “The Big Three after World War II: New Documents on Soviet Thinking about Post War Relations with the United States and Great Britain,” Cold War International History Project, working paper no. 13 (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1995); Vladislav M. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold Warfrom Stalin to Gorbachev (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 11–6; Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War: 1939–1953 (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2006), 190–91, 195; Eduard Mark, “Revolution by Degrees: Stalin’s National-Front Strategy for Europe, 1941–1947,” Cold War International History Project, working paper no. 31 (Washington, DC, 2001).
2. Juri Zhukov, Stalin: Tainy Vlasti (Moskva: Vagrius, 2005), 215–18; Serhy Yekelchyk, Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (Oxford, 2007), 146; Tõnu Tannberg, “Moskva Institutsionaalsed ja Nomenklatuursed Kontrollimehhanismid Eestis NSVs Sõjajärgsetel Aastatel,” in Tõnu Tannberg (ed.), Eesti NSVAastatel 1940–1953: Sovetiseerimise Mehhanismid ja Tagajärjed Nõukogude Liidu ja Ida-Euroopa Arengute Kontekstis (Tartu: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv, 2007), 225–72; Indrek Jürjo, “Välisminister koha-kaasluse alusel,” Maaleht, March 1, 2001.
3. Ardi Siilaberg, “Nõukogude Võimu Naasmine Harjumaa Operatiivgrupi Näitel 1944. aastal” (Unpublished BA thesis, University of Tartu, 2008), 3.
4. John Erickson, The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin’s War with Germany, vol. 1 (London: Orion, 2000), 168.
5. Vojtech Mastny, Russia’s Road to Cold War; Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941–1945 (New York, Guildford: Columbia University Press, 1979), 180.