| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations and Transliteration | |
| 1 | Comrades in Misfortune: The USSR and Germany, 1917-1970 | 3 |
| 2 | Prelude to Unification: Moscow and Bonn in the Detente Era | 18 |
| 3 | Rethinking the German Question: Gorbachev and the Two Germanies, 1985-1988 | 41 |
| 4 | Wir Sind Ein Volk: Germany Unites | 74 |
| 5 | United Germany and NATO: The Kremlin Decides | 109 |
| 6 | Implementing Unification: Russia and Germany, 1992-1997 | 151 |
| 7 | National Identity and Foreign Policy after Communism | 185 |
| 8 | Russia and Germany in the New Europe | 204 |
| 9 | Russia and Germany in the Twenty-First Century | 233 |
| Notes | 247 |
| Bibliography | 281 |
| Index | 293 |