German-Soviet Relations Between The Two World Wars, 1919-1939
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In the volatile interwar period, when Europe teetered between the wreckage of one catastrophic conflict and the gathering storm of another, the covert and often contradictory relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union stands as one of history's most consequential diplomatic paradoxes. E.H. Carr's German-Soviet Relations Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1939 chronicles with forensic precision the ideological tensions, secret military cooperation, and shifting political calculations that bound two ideologically opposed powers together in a dangerous and ultimately doomed alliance, from the Treaty of Rapallo through to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Carr, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative historians of international relations and Soviet affairs, presents a rigorous and unsentimental analysis of realpolitik in action, arguing that the relationship was driven not by ideological affinity but by mutual strategic necessity in a hostile international order. His measured, authoritative prose cuts through Cold War mythology to illuminate the structural forces that shaped both nations' foreign policies, leaving the reader to ponder how differently the Second World War — and the century itself — might have unfolded had this fateful partnership been forged on different terms.
Author: E.H. Carr
Format: Paperback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the volatile interwar period, when Europe teetered between the wreckage of one catastrophic conflict and the gathering storm of another, the covert and often contradictory relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union stands as one of history's most consequential diplomatic paradoxes. E.H. Carr's German-Soviet Relations Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1939 chronicles with forensic precision the ideological tensions, secret military cooperation, and shifting political calculations that bound two ideologically opposed powers together in a dangerous and ultimately doomed alliance, from the Treaty of Rapallo through to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Carr, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative historians of international relations and Soviet affairs, presents a rigorous and unsentimental analysis of realpolitik in action, arguing that the relationship was driven not by ideological affinity but by mutual strategic necessity in a hostile international order. His measured, authoritative prose cuts through Cold War mythology to illuminate the structural forces that shaped both nations' foreign policies, leaving the reader to ponder how differently the Second World War — and the century itself — might have unfolded had this fateful partnership been forged on different terms.