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Pariahs, partners, predators : German-Soviet relations, 1922-1941

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
Print Book, English, ©1997
Columbia University Press, New York, ©1997
xiv, 308 pages ; 24 cm
9780231106764, 0231106769
36023920
1. Revanchists and Revolutionaries
2. German Military Installations in the USSR
3. Crossroads
4. Partners
5. Conquests and Conflicts
6. Toward the Abyss
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