Making Common Cause
Subtitle: German-Soviet Secret Relations, 1919-1923
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780230006447
Subjects: Espionage & secret services; European history: from c 1900 -; International relations; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History; History - General History; History: World; Russia; Europe - Former Soviet Republics; International Relations - General; History / Former Soviet Republics; 1918-1933; Foreign relations; Germany; Politics and government; Soviet Union
Description: "Within the history of the inter-war years, the Soviet-German relationship stands out as being decisive not only for Europe, but the world as a whole. Before Molotov and Ribbentrop had heard of each other, the German and Soviet armies had established a functional working relationship which would yield the tools later used in the Second World War. This study traces the evolution of the relationship between the outsider states of the international system from its earliest moments in the chaotic months following the First World War, to the establishment of formal relations in 1922, when the diplomatic umbrella could more safely shelter the growing collaboration. Making Common Cause in the first book-length study of this topic to be based upon both German and previously underutilized or unavailable Russian archival sources, and thus provides an important complement to the historiography of inter-war Europe."--Jacket.