Further Reading
Historians have considered the effects of the Anglo-American-Soviet triangular relationship on Canadian interests in the mid-1940s. Denis Smith’s Diplomacy of Fear: Canada and the Cold War 1941–1948 utilizes correspondences from the same collection of primary sources assessed in this paper. He puts onus on the Russians for dooming post-war cooperation through self-interested policies and utilizes an American-centric analysis.1 Lawrence Aronsen and Martin Kitchen also provide an interesting analysis of Canada’s role in the emerging world order, but their arguments of a nearly equal Anglo-American-Canadian alliance overemphasize Canada’s position and neglect shifting power dynamics among the Western allies.2 These works provide a broader overview of the period, but the primary documents themselves are critical in elucidating the nuances and idiosyncrasies inherent in Canadian diplomatic activity in the Soviet Union from 1943–46.
Further Reading
Aronsen, Lawrence. "Preparing for Armageddon: JIC 1 (Final) and the Soviet Attack on Canada." Intelligence and National Security 19, no. 3 (2004): 490-510. doi:10.1080/0268452042000316250.
Aronsen, Lawrence, and Martin Kitchen. The Origins of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective: American, British and Canadian Relations with the Soviet Union, 1941–48. Basingstoke: Macmillan Company, 1988.
Bothwell, Robert. Alliance and Illusion: Canada and the World, 1945-1984. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.
Bothwell, Robert. The Big Chill: Canada and the Cold War. Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1998.
Holmes, John W. The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order, 1943–1957. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982.
Smith, Denis. Diplomacy of Fear: Canada and the Cold War, 1941–1948. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
1 Denis Smith, Diplomacy of Fear: Canada and the Cold War, 1941–1948 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988), 72.
2 Lawrence Aronsen and Martin Kitchen, The Origins of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective: American, British and Canadian Relations with the Soviet Union, 1941–48, x.