num_pages: 387
description: This remarkable book is the product of a conference held in Paris in September 1989 in which, for the very first time, Western, Soviet and Japanese historians joined in a scientific debate on all the most controversial aspects of how the Second World War came into being. Every one of the contributors is a star in his field. Soviet scholars are confronted by Russians who fled into exile. The book reveals the circumstances and the repercussions of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, examines the fate of Poland, and then shows how a number of relatively local struggles in Europe and the Far East coalesce in the course of two years to produce a global conflict.
language: English
title: The Opening of the Second World War: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on International Relations, held at The American University of ... 26-30, 1989
titlecomplete: The Opening of the Second World War: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on International Relations, held at The American University of ... 26-30, 1989 (American University Studies)
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers