The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War: Russo-German Relations and the Road to War, 1933-1941

ISBN-13: 9780333556979 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 208 str.

GeoffreyC Roberts

Opis

Historians have heatedly debated the Soviet role in the origins of the Second World War for more than 50 years. At the centre of these controversies stands the question of Soviet relations with Nazi Germany and the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939. Drawing on a wealth of new material from the Soviet Archives, this detailed and original study analyses Moscow's response to the rise of Hitler, explains the origins of the Nazi-Soviet pact, and charts the road to Operation Barbarossa and the disaster of the surprise German attack on the USSR in June 1941.

Spis treści

Introduction: on War Origins and the USSR.- The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1917-1938.- Moscow and the Munich Crisis, March-September 1938.- Missed Opportunities?.- Russia and the West, October '38-August '39.- The Eastern Question: the Japanese Factor in Soviet.- Foreign Policy Prelude to Alliance: Moscow and the Nazis, October '38-August '39.- The Nazi-Soviet Pact and the Outbreak of the Second World War.- Unholy Alliance: Soviet-German Relations, 1939-41.- Stalin and June 22nd 1941.- Conclusion: An Inevitable War?.- Bibliography.- Documents.