The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence 1918–1940 - Hardcover

Jordan, Nicole

 
9780521410779: The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence 1918–1940
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521410770 ISBN 13: 9780521410779
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Between 1936 and 1938, the French alliance system in East Central Europe collapsed. The resulting dramatic expansion of German power led directly to the Second World War. This illuminating study investigates the implications of French military, economic and diplomatic policies in Central Europe from Versailles until the fall of France, establishing the proper context for the policy options of Léon Blum's Popular Front. It focuses on the clash between the French military and French radical politics in 1936–7 when Blum's government sought to rally to the defence of Czechoslovakia. The figure of Blum illustrates the insights and the dilemmas of a democratic Socialist caught up in the imbrication of foreign and domestic politics which increasingly characterised the 1930s.

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Book Description

This illuminating study investigates the implications of French military, economic and diplomatic policies in Central Europe from Versailles until the fall of France, establishing the proper context for the policy options of Léon Blum's Popular Front.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521410770
ISBN 13 
9780521410779
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
366

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