Pariahs, Partners, Predators: German-Soviet Relations 1922-1941 - Hardcover

Nekrich, Aleksandr

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231106769 ISBN 13: 9780231106764

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This revealing study sheds new light on the long-term relationship between Germany and the USSR, stretching from the early years of the Weimar Republic to the cataclysmic events of 1941. Nekrich explores how Germany and the Soviet Union - as "pariah" states, condemned and ostracized by the Great Powers - collaborated to regain their political and, especially, military power. He demonstrates, in particular, Stalin's abiding interest in the "German card, " and the diplomacy of "predation, " by which in 1939-1941, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany set about a methodical dismemberment and annexation of the smaller states of east-central Europe. According to Nekrich, the enmity between Germany and the Soviet Union has been greatly exaggerated. Drawing upon a wealth of archival sources (including much from recently declassified Russian archives), Nekrich explores the clandestine military collaboration for training, arms testing, and the manufacture of poison gases that continued to the beginning of the Hitler era.

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From the Back Cover:

The culmination of decades of research by the late Soviet emigre historian, Pariahs, Partners, Predators is a definitive analysis of Nazi-Soviet relations in the interwar period. Drawing for the first time on both German archives and the recently opened Central Party Archive in Moscow, Aleksandr M. Nekrich provides new insights into Stalin's strategy and tactics and Hitler's real agenda, in a powerful, critical account of one of the most controversial chapters in twentieth-century history.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0231106769
• ISBN 13: 9780231106764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320