Adolf Hitler's genocidal ambition may have provoked World War II, but as Sean McMeekin shows, Joseph Stalin maneuvered to start a war between Germany and her capitalist adversaries in Europe and between Japan and the "Anglo-Saxon" powers in Asia. Drawing upon nrely available Soviet documents, McMeekin also makes the case that the United States and Britain's self-defeating strategy of supporting Stalin and his armies at all costs allowed the Soviets to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism.